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The Road to Rails 3

Being at RailsConf 5 has given us the opportunity to finalize a lot of the...
Chad Pytel
June 11, 2010
- News
- Web
- Rails
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Unit and Functional Tests are as Useful as 100% Code Coverage

Note: code samples updated October 25, 2012 I’m going to try and...
Josh Clayton
April 26, 2010
- Web
- Rails
- Testing
Custom Date And Time Formats In Rails

How to use i18n in Rails for custom time and date formats.
Dan Croak
February 16, 2010
- Web
- Rails
On-the-fly image handling with Dragonfly

Dragonfly lets you dynamically crop, resize and transform images through the URL.
Mark Evans
January 13, 2010
- Rails
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- New Bamboo
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Test-Driven Rails Helper

This is how I unit tested a view helper to format a date range in a view. I...
Dan Croak
October 15, 2009
- Web
- Testing
- Rails
Code Cowboy

I’ve written before about lightweight access control using Inherited...
Dan Croak
October 12, 2009
- Web
- Rails
- Open Source
Testing ActiveRecord Named Scopes

Everyone was psyched when Nick Kallen’s has_finder plugin was added to Rails...
Dan Croak
September 29, 2009
- Web
- Testing
- Ruby
- Rails
Role Suggesting Name

Consider a CreditCard class: class CreditCard < ActiveRecord::Base ...
Dan Croak
September 18, 2009
- Web
- Rails
- Good Code
Five Ridiculously Awesome Cucumber (and Webrat) Features

Cucumber, if you haven’t heard, is the Next Big Thing™. It affords...
Josh Clayton
September 16, 2009
- Web
- Rails
- Testing
Quacking like an ActiveRecord in Rails 2.3.4

You know everything about pretending to be an ActiveRecord::Base object, and...
Mike Burns
September 10, 2009
- Web
- Rails
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