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In our protocol guide, we instruct new developers to set up an existing Rails...
Dan Croak
January 25, 2013
- Web
- Ruby
- Rails
Ruby Science: Improving Callbacks and Validations

We have three new chapters to announce this week in Ruby Science. If you’re...
Joe Ferris
January 18, 2013
- Web
- Ruby
- Rails
Delivering All Email From Staging To A Group Email Address

All email from the staging environment of a Rails app can be intercepted and...
Dan Croak
January 18, 2013
- Web
- Ruby
- Rails
Process Jobs Inline when Running Acceptance Tests

Web apps often move long-running processes (such as delivering email) out of...
Josh Clayton
January 14, 2013
- Web
- Rails
- Testing
Improving Rails boot time with Zeus

Zeus improves Rails boot time. Saving seconds is most important when running...
Dan Croak
January 10, 2013
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- 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
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- Rails
- Ruby
- Good Code
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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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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
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