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Leanpub Book LAUNCH 🚀 Testing Rails from Scratch: A practical, (mostly) out-of-the-box approach to test-driven development in Ruby on Rails by Aaron Sumner

Aaron Sumner launched a new book, Testing Rails from Scratch, on Leanpub. The book provides a practical guide to test-driven development in Ruby on Rails using mostly built-in tools, covering Rails 8.1 and Ruby 4.0.

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Leanpub Book LAUNCH 🚀 Testing Rails from Scratch: A practical, (mostly) out-of-the-box approach to test-driven development in Ruby on Rails by Aaron Sumner
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Books Testing Rails from Scratch is a practical guide to testing Rails applications at every level, using (mostly) tools that the framework includes by default.

Welcome to the Leanpub Launch video for Testing Rails from Scratch: A practical, (mostly) out-of-the-box approach to test-driven development in Ruby on Rails by Aaron Sumner!

About the Book #

[BOOK_IMAGE] Ruby on Rails offers powerful tools to test your software's features out of the box. But how do you use them to ship code with confidence? And how do you ensure that AI-generated code works as intended?

Testing Rails from Scratch is a practical guide to testing Rails applications at every level, using (mostly) tools that the framework includes by default. You'll learn to test the way I did, by starting with simple building blocks and expanding into complex tests covering broad swaths of your code. Learn to test with confidence!

Testing Rails from Scratch covers Ruby on Rails 8.1 and Ruby 4.0.

About the Author #

Aaron Sumner is a software developer and educator who has helped thousands of programmers level up their software engineering skills. In his blog, Left of the Dev, Aaron shows how to be a productive developer, even when time and other resources are tight.

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