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		moron4hire on Sept 19, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Case Against Cucumber Cucumber doesn't mean anything. Sinatra doesn't mean anything. It's no different of a situation, except my clients would look at me like I grew a third ear if I made any mention of them.

steveklabnik on Sept 19, 2013 [–]

Cucumber _does_ mean something: it's about outside-in testing. Cucumbers have a skin on the outside and juicy stuff on the inside.

You may argue that that is silly, but there is some sort of reason.

(None for Sinatra, though. "He's so classy he deserves a web framework written after him.")

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