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Improving Rails boot time with Zeus

Zeus improves Rails boot time. Saving seconds is most important when running...
Dan Croak
January 10, 2013
- Web
- Ruby
- Rails
- Testing
Ruby Science: How to Eliminate Feature Envy and Comments

Since launching Ruby Science we’ve written and released five new chapters....
Harlow Ward
January 8, 2013
- Web
- Rails
- Ruby
- Good Code
- Books
Faster Tests: Sign In Through The Back Door

One way to make tests faster is to no load and submit the sign in form during...
Dan Croak
December 14, 2012
- Web
- Ruby
- Rails
- Open Source
- Clearance
She Blinded Me with Ruby Science

We love Rails, object-oriented programming, and refactoring. We use a...
Joe Ferris
December 13, 2012
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- Ruby
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Better serialization, less as_json

Improving the generation of JSON.
Alex Grant
November 27, 2012
- Web
- Rails
- Good Code
End-to-End Testing with RSpec Integration Tests and Capybara

Stability can become an issue as web applications evolve and grow –...
Harlow Ward
October 26, 2012
- Web
- Testing
- Ruby
- Rails
Reduce Application Clutter, Disable Unwanted Rails Generators

Rails has some handy generators to help streamline the creation of models,...
Harlow Ward
October 24, 2012
- Web
- Rails
ActiveModel Form Objects

Submitting form data is a common feature of web applications – allowing users...
Harlow Ward
October 10, 2012
- Web
- Rails
Don’t Repeat Your Ruby Constants in Javascript

Constants help us avoid Magic Numbers and repeated code, which violates the...
Adarsh Pandit
September 27, 2012
- Web
- JavaScript
- Rails
- Good Code
Hidden Gems: Suspenders

Suspenders is all the boilerplate you need for a Rails app.
Mike Burns
September 25, 2012
- Web
- Ruby
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- Suspenders
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