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Using the Draper Gem, Round One

Draper is a handy new gem for extracting logic normally held in helpers and...
Josh Clayton
August 23, 2012
- Web
- Rails
- Testing
Ruby and KISS: Sitting in a Tree

I learned a lot of things in the Marines, but one takeaway which applies...
Josh Clayton
August 16, 2012
- Web
- Rails
- Ruby
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Riding a Mountain Lion

Update: A better approach is detailed in Laptop Setup for an Awesome...
Prem Sichanugrist
July 25, 2012
- Web
- Rails
- OS X
Clearance 0.16.3 fixes a password reset vulnerability

A new clearance version works around a Rails security bug.
Mike Burns
June 1, 2012
- News
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- Rails
- Open Source
- Clearance
Trail Map

How do I learn Ruby on Rails? Vim? Test-Driven Development? Someone asks...
Dan Croak
May 29, 2012
- News
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- Git
- Ruby
- Rails
- PostgreSQL
- Testing
- Unix
- Vim
Remove Duplication with FactoryBot's Traits

FactoryBot’s traits are an outstanding way to DRY up your tests and factories...
Josh Clayton
May 24, 2012
- Web
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- Testing
- Ruby
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- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
Get Your Callbacks On with Factory Bot 3.3

FactoryBot 3.3.0 was released this weekend with a slew of improvements. To...
Josh Clayton
May 15, 2012
- Web
- Open Source
- Rails
- Testing
- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
Use Factory Bot's build_stubbed for a Faster Test Suite

Want to speed up your test suite? Reduce the number of objects persisted to...
Josh Clayton
May 9, 2012
- Web
- Open Source
- Rails
- Testing
- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
Constrain Yourself

Most Rails developers have written apps where you have a marketing homepage...
Josh Clayton
May 8, 2012
- Web
- Rails
- Open Source
Date and Time Formats for Pirates

Need to display a date in your Rails app? First try: Time.now.strftime...
Alex Berry
April 27, 2012
- Web
- Rails
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