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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
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
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
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
How to Share a Session Between Sinatra and Rails

Mount a Sinatra app via Rails routes or use Rack::Builder if you need a custom middleware stack for your Sinatra app.
Joël Quenneville
May 30, 2014
- Web
- Rails
- Sinatra
Workflows for Writing Migrations With Rollbacks in Mind

Sleep better at night knowing your migrations are reversible.
Simon Taranto
May 29, 2014
- Web
- Rails
SSL for Rails with Heroku and DNSimple

Buy, prepare, and deploy an SSL certificate from DNSimple for your Heroku app.
Dan Croak
May 21, 2014
- Web
- DNS
- Rails
Document Explicit Dependencies Through Tests

Split your spec_helper.rb file into a minimal spec_helper.rb file and a rails_helper.rb file to load only the necessary dependencies in a spec. This is now the default in Rails.
Greg Lazarev
May 6, 2014
- Web
- Rails
- Testing
Refactoring Ruby Iteration Patterns to the Database

Calculations across objects are ripe for using a map and an inject but frequently, with ActiveRecord, the solution is more elegant and faster if we can have SQL do the work instead.
Simon Taranto
April 15, 2014
- Web
- Rails
- SQL
Extract Mostly-Constant Data from the Database

How moving some data out of the database and into your codebase as well-named constants can decouple your code and improve performance.
Tute Costa
April 11, 2014
- Web
- Rails
- SQL
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