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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
Back to Basics: Writing Unit Tests First

Step-by-step instructions for learning Test-Driven Development (TDD) in Ruby. There’s nothing to fear! It’s fun.
Britt Ballard
April 7, 2014
- Web
- Back To Basics
- Ruby
- Rails
- Testing
What's New in Edge Rails: Active Record enums

Try out enums, a new data structure macro in Rails.
Prem Sichanugrist
April 1, 2014
- Web
- Rails
Streaming downloads proxy service with Node.js

Use microservices to compose and analyse light-weight declarative data pipelines.
Ismael Celis
March 31, 2014
- JavaScript
- Rails
- New Bamboo
- Web
Form Filling is Formulaic

Write less form-related code in your Capybara tests with our newly open-sourced library, Formulaic.
Caleb Hearth
February 28, 2014
- News
- Web
- Rails
- Open Source
- Formulaic
Using Arel to Compose SQL Queries

Use composition to build more complex SQL queries in Ruby using ActiveRelation’s API.
Sage Griffin
February 17, 2014
- Web
- Rails
How to Evaluate Your Rails JSON API for Performance Improvements

Before adding database indexes, eager loading, and caches, spend a few minutes at the whiteboard with your team to rethink the high-level requirements for your JSON API.
Laila Winner
February 10, 2014
- Web
- Performance
- Rails
Back to Basics: HTTP Requests in Rails Apps

An in-depth look at HTTP requests and how Ajax works in Rails.
Britt Ballard
February 5, 2014
- Web
- Back To Basics
- HTTP
- Rails
Automatically Wait for AJAX with Capybara

How to use Capybara’s wait_for_ajax helper.
Gabe Berke-Williams
February 4, 2014
- Web
- Rails
- Testing
ActiveRecord's where.not

Make clunky negation queries in ActiveRecord easier to read.
Gabe Berke-Williams
January 24, 2014
- Web
- Rails
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