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I often find myself having to build arrays of similar objects in my tests. For example:
def create_user
:some_user
end
users = [create_user, create_user, create_user]
It seems wasteful to repeat the same method call three times. One solution is to use the #times method to append to an array, like this:
users = []
3.times { users << create_user }
This just doesn’t [...]
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