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This week in open source

This week saw improvements to suspenders, fistface, factory_bot,...
Mike Burns
July 22, 2011
- News
- Open Source
Introducing Bourbon Sass Mixins

Bourbon is a library, and also a Ruby Gem, of sass mixins that are designed...
Phil LaPier
July 20, 2011
- Bourbon
- Sass
- Open Source
- Design
New Factory Bot Definition Syntax

factory_bot and factory_bot_rails release candidates were released this week...
Dan Croak
July 3, 2011
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- Web
- Ruby
- Testing
- Open Source
- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
github.com/thoughtbot cleanup

Like many of you, we’ve had a lot of code pass through our...
Dan Croak
June 14, 2011
- News
- Open Source
Email and Password Confirmation Bias

I don’t believe email confirmation or password confirmation are desirable in...
Dan Croak
May 16, 2011
- Web
- Rails
- Open Source
- Clearance
The Quest Continues: Introducing Capybara Webkit

We recently blogged about our experiences and ongoing efforts to discover...
Joe Ferris
April 13, 2011
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- Web
- Testing
- Open Source
- Rails
- JavaScript
- Capybara Webkit
Copycopter's client: so fast

Techniques for making Ruby client libraries fast and unobtrusive.
Joe Ferris
February 24, 2011
Ruby's Pessimistic Operator

Do you know Ruby’s pessimistic operator? It looks like this: ~> You’ve...
Dan Croak
December 29, 2010
- Web
- Ruby
- Open Source
Fishing For Trout In Our Suspenders

The means by which we update our templates.
Dan Croak
December 14, 2010
- Web
- Open Source
- Ruby
- Rails
- Suspenders
Suspenders now with RSpec, jQuery, and more

Suspenders is a Rails project template used as a base app for all of our...
Harold Giménez
August 6, 2010
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- Web
- Open Source
- Suspenders
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