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Introducing Hound

Introducing Hound, a hosted service that keeps your codebase clean by commenting on style guide violations or other linting issues in your GitHub pull requests.
Scott Albertson
April 9, 2014
- News
- Web
- Hound
- Ruby
- Good Code
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Removing Sass Duplication Using Sass Maps

How Sass maps empower you to write less code.
Kyle Fiedler
April 4, 2014
- Sass
- Good Code
- Design
Clearer Conditionals using De Morgan's Laws

Ever seen a hard-to-parse conditional like this? def allow_access_to_site? ...
Gabe Berke-Williams
December 20, 2013
- Web
- Good Code
Ruby Science: Extracting and Using Classes

Today’s release of Ruby Science includes three new chapters. If you’re...
Joe Ferris
February 22, 2013
- Web
- Ruby
- Good Code
Ruby Science: How to Eliminate Feature Envy and Comments

Since launching Ruby Science we’ve written and released five new chapters....
Harlow Ward
January 8, 2013
- Web
- Rails
- Ruby
- Good Code
- Books
Refactor in a branch

This blog post is about refactoring, git, long-lived branches, and scope...
Mike Burns
December 18, 2012
- Git
- Good Code
Better serialization, less as_json

Improving the generation of JSON.
Alex Grant
November 27, 2012
- Web
- Rails
- Good Code
Code that says why it does

A new developer joins a project, and asks in Campfire: “what is the purpose...
Ben Orenstein
November 9, 2012
- Good Code
Let's Not

How using this popular RSpec technique can sometimes do more harm than good.
Joe Ferris
October 31, 2012
- Web
- Ruby
- Testing
- Good Code
Don’t Repeat Your Ruby Constants in Javascript

Constants help us avoid Magic Numbers and repeated code, which violates the...
Adarsh Pandit
September 27, 2012
- Web
- JavaScript
- Rails
- Good Code
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