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Refactoring From Model to View Helper to Null Object

We are working to add more thorough progress tracking to upcase.com. Chad...
Tute Costa
October 10, 2014
- Web
- Rails
- Ruby
- Upcase
ActiveRecord Eager Loading with Query Objects and Decorators

How can you plug complex, multi-model SQL queries into ActiveRecord models so that you can use them in your views?
Joe Ferris
September 19, 2014
- Web
- Rails
- SQL
- Performance
How to Find Missing or Unused I18n Translations

While I18n is a great tool for quick copy changes, translation files can...
Jessie Young
September 12, 2014
- Web
- Rails
- I18n
Write Reliable, Asynchronous Integration Tests With Capybara

We’ve come to rely on integration tests as part of a balanced testing...
Joe Ferris
September 10, 2014
- Web
- Rails
- JavaScript
- Testing
Pluralizing I18n Translations in Your Rails Application

How to clean up your Rails views with I18n’s built-in pluralization tools.
Jessie Young
September 9, 2014
- Web
- Rails
- I18n
Acceptance Tests at a Single Level of Abstraction

Each acceptance test tells a story: a logical progression through a task...
Josh Clayton
September 2, 2014
- Web
- Ruby
- Rails
- Testing
Speed Up Tests by Selectively Avoiding Factory Bot

Learn one simple way to speed up your tests with the factory_bot gem!
Josh Clayton
August 14, 2014
- Web
- Rails
- Testing
- RSpec
- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
Using Clearance with RailsAdmin

These days, I find myself implementing RailsAdmin on almost every consulting...
Jessie Young
August 13, 2014
- Web
- Rails
- Open Source
- Clearance
Avoid AngularJS Dependency Annotation with Rails

Annotating AngularJS inject dependencies got you down? Use automated tools to annotate for you.
Greg Lazarev
August 7, 2014
- Web
- JavaScript
- AngularJS
- Rails
Segment.io and Ruby

Use Segment.io’s Ruby library to track usage patterns within a Rails application.
Josh Clayton
July 30, 2014
- Web
- Rails
- Testing
- Analytics
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