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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
- Open Source
- Rails
- Suspenders
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
- Web
- 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
- Web
- 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
- Open Source
- Testing
- Ruby
- Rails
- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
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