diff --git a/growstuff/.gitignore b/growstuff/.gitignore
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-# See http://help.github.com/ignore-files/ for more about ignoring files.
-#
-# If you find yourself ignoring temporary files generated by your text editor
-# or operating system, you probably want to add a global ignore instead:
-#   git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore_global
-
-# Ignore bundler config
-/.bundle
-
-# Ignore the default SQLite database.
-/db/*.sqlite3
-
-# Ignore all logfiles and tempfiles.
-/log/*.log
-/tmp
diff --git a/test/fixtures/.gitkeep b/test/fixtures/.gitkeep
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diff --git a/test/fixtures/users.yml b/test/fixtures/users.yml
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-# Read about fixtures at http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Fixtures.html
-
-# This model initially had no columns defined.  If you add columns to the
-# model remove the '{}' from the fixture names and add the columns immediately
-# below each fixture, per the syntax in the comments below
-#
-one: {
-	email: test@growstuff.org
-}
-# column: value
-#
-two: {}
-#  column: value
diff --git a/test/functional/.gitkeep b/test/functional/.gitkeep
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diff --git a/test/functional/home_controller_test.rb b/test/functional/home_controller_test.rb
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-require 'test_helper'
-
-class HomeControllerTest < ActionController::TestCase
-  test "should get index" do
-    get :index
-    assert_response :success
-  end
-
-end
diff --git a/test/integration/.gitkeep b/test/integration/.gitkeep
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diff --git a/test/performance/browsing_test.rb b/test/performance/browsing_test.rb
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-require 'test_helper'
-require 'rails/performance_test_help'
-
-class BrowsingTest < ActionDispatch::PerformanceTest
-  # Refer to the documentation for all available options
-  # self.profile_options = { :runs => 5, :metrics => [:wall_time, :memory]
-  #                          :output => 'tmp/performance', :formats => [:flat] }
-
-  def test_homepage
-    get '/'
-  end
-end
diff --git a/test/test_helper.rb b/test/test_helper.rb
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-ENV["RAILS_ENV"] = "test"
-require File.expand_path('../../config/environment', __FILE__)
-require 'rails/test_help'
-
-class ActiveSupport::TestCase
-  # Setup all fixtures in test/fixtures/*.(yml|csv) for all tests in alphabetical order.
-  #
-  # Note: You'll currently still have to declare fixtures explicitly in integration tests
-  # -- they do not yet inherit this setting
-  fixtures :all
-
-  # Add more helper methods to be used by all tests here...
-
-  class ActionController::TestCase
-    include Devise::TestHelpers
-  end
-end
diff --git a/test/unit/.gitkeep b/test/unit/.gitkeep
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diff --git a/test/unit/helpers/home_helper_test.rb b/test/unit/helpers/home_helper_test.rb
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-require 'test_helper'
-
-class HomeHelperTest < ActionView::TestCase
-end
diff --git a/test/unit/user_test.rb b/test/unit/user_test.rb
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-require 'test_helper'
-
-class UserTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase
-  # test "the truth" do
-  #   assert true
-  # end
-end