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Tony Stubblebine is an Internet consultant and author of Regular Expression Pocket Reference.

Shashank Tiwari is a Managing Partner & CTO at Treasury of Ideas, a technology driven innovation and value optimization company.

Rob Orsini is the author of the Rails Cookbook (O'Reilly). He's also the founder and CEO of Tuple Shop, Inc., a web software consulting company specializing in Rails and Python development.

Olexiy Prokhorenko is a Sun Certified Enterprise Architect whose areas of interests include Web software architecture and development of software with frequently changing requirements.

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Abstract Tests

My last post showed how to mock a webservice. When you have more than one webservice, all their common code, tests, and mocks should remain DRY. This post demonstrates a ruthlessly effective test pattern that forces many different interfaces to behave as similarly as possible, using the minimum possible test code.

Mock the Web Service

This post shows how to write a web service using Test-Driven Development. Our source code example is the exemplary active_merchant contribution to Ruby on Rails. It reveals how developer tests can correctly attack remote web services. Programmers writing clients (or servers) for any kind of web service should use these techniques. My next post will extend this one into the Abstract Test Pattern.

A Live Edition for Learning Rails

One of the best things about Rails is that it's under constant development. With the Live Edition of Learning Rails, the book will be able to track that progress and give beginners better access to the latest and greatest Rails has to offer.

Exploring Rails 3 - Our Free Rails Online Conference, Feb 18 @ 9am PT

Rails 3 is taking its final shape, so there's no better time to take a close look at the work that's been done in the past year. Join us for a series of talks on everything you'll need to get started with it — from creating a new application, to upgrading from Rails 2, to the foundation that makes it all possible. Attendance is limited, so register now!

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