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  1. Get Your Callbacks On with Factory Bot 3.3

    FactoryBot 3.3.0 was released this weekend with a slew of improvements. To...

    Josh Clayton
    May 15, 2012
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  2. Use Factory Bot's build_stubbed for a Faster Test Suite

    Want to speed up your test suite? Reduce the number of objects persisted to...

    Josh Clayton
    May 9, 2012
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  3. FactoryBot 3.2: so awesome it needs to be released during RailsConf

    FactoryBot 3.2 brings a slew of new features; while I’d considered breaking...

    Josh Clayton
    April 24, 2012
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  4. Factory Bot Hits 3.0!

    Factory Bot is now 3.0! It’s been a wonderful eight months and I’m really...

    Josh Clayton
    March 23, 2012
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  5. Factory Bot 2.5 Gets Custom Constructors

    Today marks a big day in the life of Factory Bot; you can now override the...

    Josh Clayton
    January 21, 2012
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  6. Factory Bot 2.4 Goes Meta

    Factory Bot1 has been getting some hardcore internal refactorings over the...

    Josh Clayton
    January 13, 2012
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  7. Factory Bot 2.2, your new best friend!

    Aside from a handful of internal code clean up, Factory Bot 2.2 brings a...

    Josh Clayton
    October 14, 2011
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  8. Getting Sequential: A look into a Factory Bot Anti-pattern

    I’ve noticed a handful of what I’d consider Factory Bot anti-patterns, either...

    Josh Clayton
    October 3, 2011
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  9. FactoryBot 2.1.0 Brings the Heat

    FactoryBot 2.1.0 has been released.

    Josh Clayton
    September 2, 2011
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  10. New Factory Bot Definition Syntax

    factory_bot and factory_bot_rails release candidates were released this week...

    Dan Croak
    July 3, 2011
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