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  1. Clearance: Rails authentication with email and password

    Authentication is a common pattern in Rails apps. Thus, there have been many...

    Dan Croak
    February 9, 2009
    • News
    • Web
    • Rails
    • Clearance
  2. Heroku Wearing Suspenders

    How to use suspenders to deploy apps to Heroku.

    Dan Croak
    January 12, 2009
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    • Ruby
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    • Suspenders
  3. What Good is a Flexible Paperclip?

    Paperclip has some new features!

    Jon Yurek
    December 30, 2008
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  4. irb & script/console tips

    Let’s get interactive. You can learn a lot about your application from irb...

    Dan Croak
    December 23, 2008
    • Web
    • Ruby
    • Rails
  5. thoughtbot is filled with vim and vigor

    Slowly over the past year thoughtbot has turned from an all-TextMate (and one...

    December 19, 2008
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    • Ruby
    • Vim
  6. Simple Test Metrics in Your Rails App, and What They Mean

    There are two, low barrier to entry ways to get some quick metrics about your...

    Chad Pytel
    October 22, 2008
    • Web
    • Rails
    • Testing
  7. The Accept: header vs. #caches_page

    In this example we’re going to have an XML API on FontsController#index. A...

    Mike Burns
    October 21, 2008
    • Web
    • Rails
    • Performance
  8. Suspenders

    Introducing Suspenders, the thoughtbot Rails template. Install ...

    Dan Croak
    October 21, 2008
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  9. Life in the Fast Lane

    You ever write a named_scope and think hey framework, I already wrote a...

    Matt Jankowski
    October 14, 2008
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  10. Phusion Passenger with a prefix

    The Mongrel Web server can run with a URL prefix, using the –prefix option....

    Mike Burns
    September 19, 2008
    • Web
    • Rails
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