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The Self-Contained Test

Learn how to write tests so they’re easy to read and your colleagues will thank you.
Edward Loveall
May 18, 2020
- Testing
- Good Code
- Ruby
New online workshop: Protect your Rails app against security threats during COVID-19

Join us as we discuss the rise of security threats during COVID-19, and how upgrading your Rails application can protect your business and users.
Daniel Colson
May 7, 2020
- Security
- Rails Upgrade
- Remote
- Workshops
- Code Audit
- Web
- Ruby
- Rails
Web Security During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought with it an increase in cyber threats, but we can fight back by being more thoughtful about web security.
Daniel Colson
April 20, 2020
- Security
- Web
- Ruby
- Rails
- Rails Upgrade
- Code Audit
Recurring Events and PostgreSQL

Scheduling, recurring events and relative dates have always been hard. Until now.
Jonas Meinerz
March 24, 2020
- PostgreSQL
- Dates
- Interval
- Rails
- Ruby
- Duration
- Web
- Databases
A maintained fork of Paperclip

A fork of Paperclip is being maintained.
Mike Burns
March 10, 2020
- News
- Paperclip
- Ruby
Decimating deprecated finders

Use synvert snippets to automatically rewrite ruby code for a smoother upgrade path to Rails 5.
Jesse Bailey
December 11, 2019
- Parsing
- Ruby
- Rails Upgrade
- Rails 5
- Rails
Faking External Services in Tests with Adapters

When faking external services in tests, start with something simple. I like having a public interface to adapters and having an in-memory adapter for tests. Let me show you an example.
German Velasco
November 28, 2019
- Testing
- Ruby
- Rails
- Web
Meowifier: A Hiss-tory Lesson

The tail of how it all started.
Beth Haubert
October 4, 2019
- Fun
- Code
- Ruby
- API
- Inspiration
Using doobie; Scala with PostgreSQL vs ActiveRecord

I’ve wrapped up my second Scala client project, and I enjoyed SQL.
Matt Sumner
June 6, 2019
- Ruby
- Scala
- SQL
Function Composition in Ruby

Ruby 2.6 added function composition to the Proc and Method classes, allowing us to use some functional programming goodness in our Ruby code.
Tom Wey
May 6, 2019
- Ruby
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