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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. Validating the FormKeep API

    Validate your client-server contracts with json_matchers.

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

    How do you simulate SMS messages in feature specs?

    Joël Quenneville
    July 27, 2015
    • Web
    • Testing
    • Ruby
    • Rails
  5. 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
  6. It's About Time (Zones)

    An overview of time zones in Rails.

    Elle Meredith
    July 23, 2015
    • Web
    • Rails
    • Ruby
  7. 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
  8. Rails Test Types and the Testing Pyramid

    Combine multiple test types for an optimal suite.

    Joël Quenneville
    July 8, 2015
    • Web
    • Testing
    • Rails
  9. Faking APIs in Development and Staging

    Use fake API servers everywhere, not just in tests.

    Joël Quenneville
    July 6, 2015
    • Web
    • Testing
    • Rails
    • Ruby
  10. 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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