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Writing simple Elasticsearch queries can often be tedious and complex, using Chewy can help but it increases the difficulty of keeping our code DRY. We would love to show you our solution to make t work easier.

When we start to talk about testing we always seem to end up discussing integration testing. But is integration testing really our favourite superhero? Or can it become our worst enemy? In this post I'm going to try, using a practical example, to work out how far we can take integration testing and when it would be better to delegate testing to other parts of the application.

For single-page applications there is a pretty clear-cut distinction between frontend and backend. The presentation and interaction aspects are handled entirely by the frontend, while the backend takes care of the logic: reading the data passed to it by the frontend, processing that data and returning the results.

It's almost time! There are just a few weeks to go until the 5th edition of Rubyday, the annual get-together of RubyItalia: the association representing Ruby developers and the Ruby ecosystem of gems and frameworks (such as Ruby on Rails) in Italy. Cantiere Creativo \ LeanPanda, together with two other companies — Nebulab and Welaika — have decided to take part in organizing the 2015 event.

Conferences are important to us for a number of reasons: they let us meet old friends; discover faces behind twitter accounts; get to know people; share our experiences; and generally find out about what's going on in our sector. Ruby Day has, for several years, been a point of reference for those like us who love using this language to develop projects.