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Check your return values: the Web

Learn how to apply a little forethought and discipline to provide your users a more informative and stable Web experience.
Mike Burns
August 10, 2020
- Web
- Rails
Another opportunity to learn how to supercharge your Rails app with a Code Audit

We’re re-running our online workshop “How to Supercharge Your Rails App with a Code Audit” and you’re invited!
Josh Clayton
May 20, 2020
New online workshop: Protect your Rails app against security threats during COVID-19

Join us as we discuss the rise of security threats during COVID-19, and how upgrading your Rails application can protect your business and users.
Daniel Colson
May 7, 2020
- Security
- Rails Upgrade
- Remote
- Workshops
- Code Audit
- Web
- Ruby
- Rails
Web Security During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought with it an increase in cyber threats, but we can fight back by being more thoughtful about web security.
Daniel Colson
April 20, 2020
- Security
- Web
- Ruby
- Rails
- Rails Upgrade
- Code Audit
New Online Workshop: How to Supercharge Your Rails App with a Code Audit

Learn thoughtbot’s approach and process around conducting code audits on Rails apps for our clients.
Josh Clayton
March 30, 2020
Recurring Events and PostgreSQL

Scheduling, recurring events and relative dates have always been hard. Until now.
Jonas Meinerz
March 24, 2020
- PostgreSQL
- Dates
- Interval
- Rails
- Ruby
- Duration
- Web
- Databases
File Upload with Elm and ActiveStorage

Making Elm + Rails/ActiveStorage play nice together.
Anthony Moffa
March 20, 2020
- Active Storage
- Elm
- Rails
Name the Abstraction, Not the Data

Naming presenters can be challenging. By shifting our perspective to look at what abstraction we are representing rather than the data being presented, we can bring clarity to our presenters, views, and models.
Eebs Kobeissi
January 20, 2020
- Rails
- Good Code
- Code
Decimating deprecated finders

Use synvert snippets to automatically rewrite ruby code for a smoother upgrade path to Rails 5.
Jesse Bailey
December 11, 2019
- Parsing
- Ruby
- Rails Upgrade
- Rails 5
- Rails
Faking External Services in Tests with Adapters

When faking external services in tests, start with something simple. I like having a public interface to adapters and having an in-memory adapter for tests. Let me show you an example.
German Velasco
November 28, 2019
- Testing
- Ruby
- Rails
- Web
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