I’ve been a guest on a couple of podcasts over the past few months, and I can’t tell you how weird it is to be refreshing your podcast feed, and see your name pop up in the new episodes to download. I hope you’ll give these shows a listen. Are there other podcasts I should try to appear on?
I joined Charles Max Wood and David Richards for this episode of the long-running Ruby Rogues podcast, released March 13, 2018. Our conversation centered around my blog posts on rewriting controllers to make them easier to test. We talked about the pros and cons of various approaches to this, gradual code improvement, and more.
I was honored to be guest number three on Jason Swett’s brand-new, testing-centric podcast. If you ever wanted to hear more detail about how I used deliberate practice to learn testing, RSpec, and test-driven development, please check it out. I also encourage you to give the earlier two episodes a listen.
Join me on a thought experiment: How does my time-tested approach to testing Ruby on Rails applications apply to the tools we get from the framework? Whether you're new to Rails testing, or curious about the default testing stack, Testing Rails from Scratch gives you a pragmatic, end-to-end introduction to test-driven development. Covers Rails 8.1 and Ruby 4.0. Early release now available for sale on Leanpub!
If you liked my series on practical advice for adding reliable tests to your Rails apps, check out the expanded ebook version. Lots of additional, exclusive content and a complete sample Rails application. Updated in 2026 to Rails 8.1 and Ruby 4.0!
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