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  1. Did You Order The Code Red?!

    On Fridays, we enjoy getting together for lunch and reviewing code. This...

    Dan Croak
    October 5, 2007
    • Web
    • Ruby
    • Rails
  2. Remember your MVCs

    From novice to expert, I’m sure every Rails developer believes in MVC. But...

    Tammer Saleh
    October 1, 2007
    • Web
    • Rails
  3. All the kings horses

    When you get a report from your site users or your clients complaining about...

    Matt Jankowski
    September 27, 2007
    • Web
    • Rails
  4. save bang your head, active record will drive you mad

    So in my never-ending quest to remove conditional logic from code, I began...

    Jared Carroll
    September 26, 2007
    • Web
    • Rails
  5. forget about the view

    Gotchas with enum types in views.

    Jared Carroll
    September 24, 2007
    • Web
    • Rails
  6. i did not know that

    Here’s something I discovered the other day: ActiveRecord infers model...

    Jared Carroll
    September 21, 2007
    • Web
    • Rails
  7. its not your responsibility

    Sometimes in Rails you ask yourself: how do I test this? One example is...

    Jared Carroll
    September 19, 2007
    • Web
    • Rails
    • Testing
  8. time to step up

    Testing views in Rails applications.

    Jared Carroll
    September 16, 2007
    • Web
    • Rails
    • Testing
  9. for the record

    Ok, I just want to set this one in stone. Rails’ polymorphic associations. ...

    Jared Carroll
    September 12, 2007
    • Web
    • Rails
  10. Brittle Tests

    Thoughts on ActionMailer fixtures in rails.

    Tammer Saleh
    September 6, 2007
    • Web
    • Rails
    • Testing
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