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  1. This week in open source

    A somewhat short update this week, in large part because I’m writing this...

    Mike Burns
    November 4, 2011
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  2. Appraisal: find out what your gems are worth

    Since the introduction of bundler to the Ruby community, dealing with...

    Joe Ferris
    October 29, 2011
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  3. This week in open source

    kumade The big changes to kumade this week: the rake task...

    Mike Burns
    October 28, 2011
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  4. This week in open source

    kumade This week our Heroku deployer, kumade, saw some...

    Mike Burns
    October 21, 2011
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  5. Factory Bot 2.2, your new best friend!

    Aside from a handful of internal code clean up, Factory Bot 2.2 brings a...

    Josh Clayton
    October 14, 2011
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  6. This week in open source

    bourbon Another week of Sass mixins known as bourbon. Phil...

    Mike Burns
    October 14, 2011
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  7. capybara-webkit doesn't like #fork

    Tips for using capybara-webkit with cucumber suites and forking.

    Jon Yurek
    October 13, 2011
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  8. This week in open source

    Another week of refactoring, bug fixes, and a bunch of new version releases....

    Mike Burns
    October 7, 2011
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  9. A frog by any other name...

    A new location for the airbrake code.

    Jon Yurek
    October 7, 2011
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  10. Getting Sequential: A look into a Factory Bot Anti-pattern

    I’ve noticed a handful of what I’d consider Factory Bot anti-patterns, either...

    Josh Clayton
    October 3, 2011
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