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.

Polymorphic associations can be perplexing. In this episode I show you how to set it up in Active Record and then move to the controller and view layer.

Prawn is an excellent Ruby library for generating PDF documents. Learn how to use it along with the Prawnto plugin in this episode.

This episode finishes up this series on Rails 2.3. Here you will learn about several smaller additions in 2.3

Rack middleware is a way to filter a request and response coming into your application. In this episode I show how to modify the response body using middleware

Rails Metal is a way to bypass the standard Rails request process for a performance boost. In this episode you will learn how to shave off a few milliseconds using Metal.

Rails 2.3 brings us much of the same functionality as the Rails Engines plugin. Learn how to embed one application into another in this episode.

In Rails 2.3 you can provide a template when generating a new Rails application. See how in this episode