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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
Announcing Administrate

A Rails engine that helps you put together a super-flexible admin dashboard.
Grayson Wright
November 3, 2015
- News
- Open Source
- Rails
- Ruby
- Web
Validating the FormKeep API

Validate your client-server contracts with json_matchers.
Sean Doyle
October 12, 2015
- Web
- Testing
- Rails
- Ruby
- JSON
- Formkeep
Testing SMS Interactions

How do you simulate SMS messages in feature specs?
Joël Quenneville
July 27, 2015
- Web
- Testing
- Ruby
- Rails
Griddler is Better Than Ever!

Griddler has some useful new features, and we’ve updated our installation and configuration instructions.
Gabe Berke-Williams
July 24, 2015
- News
- Web
- Rails
- Griddler
- Open Source
It's About Time (Zones)

An overview of time zones in Rails.
Elle Meredith
July 23, 2015
- Web
- Rails
- Ruby
A Case Study in Multiple Time Zones

Handle multiple user-defined time zones in Rails with scheduled background workers.
Elle Meredith
July 23, 2015
- Web
- Rails
- Ruby
Rails Test Types and the Testing Pyramid

Combine multiple test types for an optimal suite.
Joël Quenneville
July 8, 2015
- Web
- Testing
- Rails
Faking APIs in Development and Staging

Use fake API servers everywhere, not just in tests.
Joël Quenneville
July 6, 2015
- Web
- Testing
- Rails
- Ruby
Optimizing Full Text Search with Postgres tsvector Columns and Triggers

Improve the speed of Postgres full-text search by introducing a tsvector column to cache lexemes and using a trigger to keep the lexemes up-to-date.
Dan Croak
June 25, 2015
- Web
- Rails
- PostgreSQL
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