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  1. ruby on fails

    So recently, I had a Rails app that raised the following exception:...

    Jared Carroll
    May 29, 2007
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    • Rails
  2. views gone wild

    The pragmatic programmers dave and andy once summed up object oriented...

    Jared Carroll
    May 7, 2007
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    • Rails
  3. ActiveResource in a Flurry

    A look at the Rails Trac’s timeline shows that ActiveResource is undergoing a...

    Eric Mill
    April 26, 2007
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    • Rails
  4. true or false

    “We’ll just add a flag in the database.” I hate that phrase, it just sounds...

    Jared Carroll
    April 25, 2007
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    • Rails
  5. don't be normal

    Database normalization, the database world’s equivalent of DRY, can lead you...

    Jared Carroll
    April 24, 2007
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    • SQL
  6. it's all about behavior

    You need a new class when you have new behavior.

    Jared Carroll
    April 14, 2007
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  7. Introducing the Shoulda Testing Plugin

    So we’ve been hinting for some time now that we were going to tidy up the...

    Tammer Saleh
    April 6, 2007
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  8. I Mock Your Fixtures, Too

    Mocking is a beautiful thing. There are no words to describe the immense...

    Eric Torrey
    April 4, 2007
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    • Testing
  9. Paginated Squirrel

    Latest and greatest… 001 >> posts = Post.find(:all) do ...

    Jon Yurek
    March 30, 2007
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    • Squirrel
  10. I Mock Your Fixtures

    Testing is a beautiful thing. There are no words to describe the immense...

    Eric Torrey
    March 26, 2007
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    • Testing
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