FactoryBot is one of my favourite testing tools — I was a fan prior to joining thoughtbot. It’s one of those tools I miss immediately when working outside the Ruby ecosystem. Recently I’ve been working on a Rails project that doesn’t need any database persistence and therefore doesn’t use an object-relational mapper like ActiveRecord. Instead data is fetched from an external JSON API and parsed in
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