1. Removing Sass Duplication Using Sass Maps

    How Sass maps empower you to write less code.

    Kyle Fiedler

  2. Clearer Conditionals using De Morgan's Laws

    Ever seen a hard-to-parse conditional like this? def allow_access_to_site? ...

    Gabe Berke-Williams

  3. Ruby Science: Extracting and Using Classes

    Today’s release of Ruby Science includes three new chapters. If you’re...

    Joe Ferris

  4. Ruby Science: How to Eliminate Feature Envy and Comments

    Since launching Ruby Science we’ve written and released five new chapters....

    Harlow Ward

  5. Refactor in a branch

    This blog post is about refactoring, git, long-lived branches, and scope...

    Mike Burns

  6. Better serialization, less as_json

    Improving the generation of JSON.

    Alex Grant

  7. Code that says why it does

    A new developer joins a project, and asks in Campfire: “what is the purpose...

    Ben Orenstein

  8. Let's Not

    How using this popular RSpec technique can sometimes do more harm than good.

    Joe Ferris

  9. Don’t Repeat Your Ruby Constants in Javascript

    Constants help us avoid Magic Numbers and repeated code, which violates the...

    Adarsh Pandit

  10. Refactoring: Replace Conditional with Polymorphism

    How to work through existing code to add polymorphic behavior.

    Joe Ferris

Sign up to receive a weekly recap from thoughtbot