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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
    • Ruby
    • New Bamboo
    • Web
  4. 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
  5. Code Cowboy

    I’ve written before about lightweight access control using Inherited...

    Dan Croak
    October 12, 2009
    • Web
    • Rails
    • Open Source
  6. 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
  7. Role Suggesting Name

    Consider a CreditCard class: class CreditCard < ActiveRecord::Base ...

    Dan Croak
    September 18, 2009
    • Web
    • Rails
    • Good Code
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. You've Got Mail

    There are just some days when you want to interact with real data from a...

    Josh Clayton
    September 9, 2009
    • Web
    • Rails
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