Blazing Cloud has partnered with Marakana to record and publish our Efficient Rails Test-Driven Development class. In this video series, instructors Wolfram Arnold and Sarah Allen cover a range of topics from the culture and economics behind TDD to walking students through writing tests first-hand. Students learn best practices for using RSpec, Cucumber, Webrat and Selenium.

Additional topics covered throughout the classes include:

• Testing in layers, design patterns
• Toolbox: RSpec with Rails
• RSpec & Models
• Testing & Date Dependencies
• Controller testing
• View, Helper, Routes Testing
• Refactoring code & tests, custom matchers
• API Testing
• Remote data setup

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Efficient Rails TDD is one of the many classes that will be offered at Blazing Cloud’s San Francisco office this winter. To view a complete list of classes visit http://classes.blazingcloud.net