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How to use Webrat and Selenium to test the parts of your application that rely on AJAX or some form of Javascript interaction with the user.

Installing and configuring Spork to make RSpec and Cucumber load specs and features faster.

This is a basic introduction to integration testing with cucumber. In it, I describe how to use cucumber and rspec to implement a feature in a web application, emphasizing the importance of writing tests before code, which is often referred to as TDD (test-driven development) or BDD (behavior-driven development, a refinement of the original TDD). [...]

Metric Fu is a compilation of several tools to help find areas of code that could be improved. In this episode I show you how to setup this tool on the railscasts.com source code.

There is a lot more to Cucumber than I showed in an earlier episode. See how to refactor complex scenarios in this episode.

Fixtures are external dependencies which can make tests brittle and difficult to read. In this episode I show a better alternative using factories to generate the needed records.

You can improve the readability and remove duplication in RSpec by adding matchers and macros. Learn how in this episode.

If you prefer writing integration tests in ruby instead of Cucumber's plain english, consider interacting with Webrat directly as I show in this episode.

Cucumber is a high-level testing framework. In this episode we will create a new Rails application from scratch using behavior driven development.

Many prominent Rails developers have jumped on the BDD bandwagon, and with good reason! It’s a great workflow and values clarity, small steps, database-independence, and self-documenting code. If Test::Unit doesn’t make sense to you, or if you want to write better code, this is the place to start. This 55...