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  1. Disabling Caching in Tests

    You may not get the results you expected.

    Matt Sumner
    May 6, 2016
    • Testing
    • Rails
    • Web
  2. Factories Should be the Bare Minimum

    Keep it simple.

    Matt Sumner
    April 26, 2016
    • Testing
    • Rails
    • Factory Girl
    • Web
    • Factory Bot
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. Announcing Scenic - Versioned Database Views for Rails

    Database views can improve the performance, composability, and readability of your rails application and Scenic is here to help.

    Derek Prior
    January 11, 2016
    • PostgreSQL
    • Rails
    • Web
  7. Data Migrations in Rails

    A discussion about the reasons for using Active Record migrations vs. temporary rake tasks for data manipulations.

    Elle Meredith
    December 8, 2015
    • Rails
    • Data
    • Suspenders
    • Web
  8. Announcing Administrate

    A Rails engine that helps you put together a super-flexible admin dashboard.

    Grayson Wright
    November 3, 2015
    • News
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    • Rails
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  9. Validating the FormKeep API

    Validate your client-server contracts with json_matchers.

    Sean Doyle
    October 12, 2015
    • Web
    • Testing
    • Rails
    • Ruby
    • JSON
    • Formkeep
  10. Testing SMS Interactions

    How do you simulate SMS messages in feature specs?

    Joël Quenneville
    July 27, 2015
    • Web
    • Testing
    • Ruby
    • Rails
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