Author: Phillip Strom

RSpec is a popular Ruby testing framework that provides a lot of powerful features for you to poke and prod your apps to get them ready for production. Developers can learn the basic structure of tests fairly quickly but the magic-like syntax can be confusing, especially to early learners. So let’s dive into some of …

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Using PDFTK and the pdf-forms gem We recently worked on a client project that involved using a Rails backend to fill out PDF Forms. PDF Forms are those PDFs with editable fields, so you can insert text fields, checkboxes, signatures, etc in the file. There weren’t many resources out there for working with PDF forms …

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