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Update Your Gems Early and Often

bundle outdated can be useful for keeping your bundler dependencies updated.
Ian Zabel
January 24, 2017
- Rails
- Ruby
- Web
Options for adding a blog to a Rails application

TL;DR: roll your own.
Tute Costa
November 18, 2016
- Rails
- Blog
- Web
thoughtbot Ruby Open Source is Ready for Rails 5

Upgrade all the things!
Tute Costa
July 1, 2016
- Open Source
- Ruby
- Rails
- Paperclip
- Clearance
- Suspenders
- Scenic
- Web
Action Mailer and Active Job sitting in a tree...

Getting started with Action Mailer and Active Job.
Elle Meredith
May 25, 2016
- Ruby
- Rails
- Web
Announcing fake_stripe

A fake to test your Stripe code without hitting Stripe’s servers.
Melanie Gilman
May 24, 2016
- News
- Testing
- Rails
- Open Source
Disabling Caching in Tests

You may not get the results you expected.
Matt Sumner
May 6, 2016
- Testing
- Rails
- Web
Factories Should be the Bare Minimum

Keep it simple.
Matt Sumner
April 26, 2016
- Testing
- Rails
- Factory Girl
- Web
- Factory Bot
Advanced ActiveRecord Querying, Now on Upcase

Master ActiveRecord and take full advantage of your database with our newest course on Upcase.
Chris Toomey
March 10, 2016
- Upcase
- Rails
- News
Brace Yourselves, Rails Upgrade is Coming

How to prepare your Rails application so you won’t get left out in the cold.
Prem Sichanugrist
February 23, 2016
- Ruby
- Rails
- Web
To gem, or not to gem

Writing software is an active, thoughtful practice. Choosing gems requires as much consideration as writing code.
Elle Meredith
February 19, 2016
- Rails
- Web
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