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Access Ruby Hash Values with Fallbacks for Missing Data

Find out different ways to access hash values in Ruby and save the dinosaurs at the same time.
Rob Whittaker
September 25, 2017
- Code
- Rails
- Ruby
- Web
Debugging Why Your Specs Have Slowed Down

Your test suite used to be lightning fast but now it’s starting to feel a bit sluggish. Before adding CI parallelization, let’s see if there’s any clutter to remove.
Mike Wenger
September 22, 2017
- Testing
- Ruby
- Rails
- Factory Girl
- Web
- Factory Bot
Querying the oldest and newest records within an SQL group

How to find the oldest or most recent record associated with a particular foreign key.
Jack Wilson
September 18, 2017
- PostgreSQL
- SQL
- Databases
- Rails
Lean & Maintainable Reports with Heroku Dataclips

Write testable reports in SQL that don’t erode over time.
Oli Peate
August 21, 2017
- Data
- Heroku
- Rails
- Web
Headless Capybara Feature Specs with Chrome

We’re experimenting with running feature specs using Chrome’s new headless mode. How do we set it up, and how does it compare to Capybara-WebKit?
Derek Prior
June 16, 2017
- Rails
- Testing
- Web
Decorating ActiveRecord

Avoid some tricky edge cases when decorating ActiveRecord models.
Joël Quenneville
March 31, 2017
- Web
- Ruby
- Rails
Chain RSpec Matchers for Improved Test Readability

Improve test readability by leveraging RSpec’s matcher composition to make multiple assertions with a single matcher.
Josh Clayton
March 9, 2017
- Web
- RSpec
- Ruby
- Rails
- Testing
Slicing up Rails Application.js for Faster Load Times

How to profile page load performance in Chrome and break out modular JavaScript assets.
Oli Peate
February 27, 2017
- Performance
- Rails
Validation, Database Constraint, or Both?

What happens when we stop using validations for data integrity and instead use them for user interface?
Derek Prior
February 15, 2017
- Web
- Rails
Block Web Crawlers with Rails

Search engines “crawl” and “index” web content through programs called robots (a.k.a. crawlers or spiders). Here are some approaches to blocking them in Ruby on Rails apps.
Dan Croak
February 10, 2017
- Rails
- Ruby
- SEO
- Web
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