Technologies Resources

Testing

• Thoughtbot: How We Test Rails Applications - Basic guide for RSpec testing, describing the various forms of testing (feature, model, controller, view, other tips)
• Thoughtbot: FactoryGirl's build-stubbed for a faster test suite - create persists objects to the database, build-stubbed doesn't. If we don't need to test the database, don't persist, for faster tests.
• Betterspecs - Guidelines for good rspec tests.

Gems

• CanCanCan Github - We use CanCanCan to specify what each user 'can' do.
• Rolify Github - We use Rolify to allow us to specify roles for each User account. Combined with CanCanCan, this allows us to easily specify classes of users and restrict access based on instances or groups of objects.
• Devise Github - Devise handles the registration, and authentication of Users - the last piece of our User control model. The Rolify github contains a basic guide for using all three of these gems together.