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Nesting content_tag in Rails 3

Nesting content_tag in Rails 3 is counter-intuitive. This looks like it will...
Gabe Berke-Williams
August 19, 2011
- Web
- Rails
ActiveRecord, Caching, and the Single Responsibility Principle

I was working on a messaging system earlier this week and noticed a pretty...
Josh Clayton
August 19, 2011
- Web
- Rails
- Good Code
Custom Formats for DateTime

Date::DATE_FORMATS is quite helpful. It lets you do this:...
Gabe Berke-Williams
August 16, 2011
- Web
- Rails
Code Review: Ruby and Rails Idioms

We often augment an existing Rails team or help build a Rails team on behalf...
Dan Croak
July 27, 2011
- Web
- Rails
Use Capybara On Any HTML Fragment Or Page

I was upgrading Gemcutter to Cucumber and Capybara 1.0 yesterday from...
Nick Quaranto
July 26, 2011
- Web
- Testing
- Ruby
- Rails
Backbone.js on Rails: a new dynamic ebook

We recently tweeted that this was the “summer of backbone.js”. 75% of our...
Chad Pytel
July 18, 2011
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Fewer Rails Flash Messages

Clearance 0.12.0 was released last week with a continued focus on user and...
Dan Croak
July 5, 2011
- Web
- Rails
- Clearance
AuthorizedController

We use a few Rails engines such as High Voltage and Clearance which allow you...
Dan Croak
June 7, 2011
- Web
- Rails
- Testing
- Clearance
- High Voltage
Redis For A Flat URL Hierarchy

In the URL structure of a new app, I want the routes to have a flat hierarchy...
Dan Croak
May 23, 2011
- Web
- Redis
- Rails
Email and Password Confirmation Bias

I don’t believe email confirmation or password confirmation are desirable in...
Dan Croak
May 16, 2011
- Web
- Rails
- Open Source
- Clearance
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