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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. Laptop Setup for an Awesome Development Environment

    Don’t manually setup your new laptop with a series of copy-and-pasted steps from some blog post. Leverage automation and the open source community to save time and get a more stable result.

    Dan Croak
    June 18, 2014
    • Web
    • Open Source
    • Ruby
    • Rails
    • Unix
    • OS X
  8. Foolproof I18n Setup in Rails

    Let’s make I18n on Rails better, quickly and easily. These tips have helped...

    Gabe Berke-Williams
    June 17, 2014
    • Web
    • Rails
  9. How Rails' Type Casting Works

    Why is it that when you assign a property to an Active Record model and read it back, the value isn’t always the same?

    Sage Griffin
    June 16, 2014
    • Web
    • Ruby
    • Rails
  10. Shared Terminology Yet Different Concepts Between Ember.js and Rails

    Developers who are well versed in Ruby on Rails (or other MVC...

    Tute Costa
    June 12, 2014
    • Web
    • Rails
    • Ember
    • JavaScript
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