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  1. ImageMagick vulnerability does not affect Paperclip

    There is no need to upgrade Paperclip in light of CVE-2016–3714. You may choose to upgrade ImageMagick regardless.

    Tute Costa
    May 4, 2016
    • Security
    • Open Source
    • Paperclip
    • Ruby
  2. Blocks, Procs, and Enumerable

    A look under the hood at how blocks and procs are used in Ruby.

    Joël Quenneville
    April 25, 2016
    • Ruby
  3. Maybe Thinking

    By understanding Maybe, you begin to see code in a new light.

    Josh Clayton
    April 15, 2016
    • Functional Programming
    • Elm
    • Ruby
  4. Recover Data from Production Backups with ActiveRecord

    Sometimes things go awry with production data and you need to recover. Here’s one way to do it.

    Bernerd Schaefer
    April 13, 2016
    • Web
    • Ruby
  5. Rebuilding Git in Ruby

    From zero to commit! Let’s rebuild Git with a more familiar approach for Rails developers to get a better understanding on how Git works under the hood.

    Joël Quenneville
    March 14, 2016
    • Git
    • Ruby
  6. Executing Elevated Commands in Your Current Environment

    No more maintaining multiple versions of gems for your system Ruby!

    Justin Kenyon
    March 9, 2016
    • Ruby
    • Unix
  7. Building a Ping Pong Scoreboard

    How we built a scoreboard for our ping pong table as a hack day project.

    Dan Barber
    March 1, 2016
    • Web
    • Ruby
    • JavaScript
    • Hardware
    • Hack Day
    • Project
    • Ping Pong
  8. Brace Yourselves, Rails Upgrade is Coming

    How to prepare your Rails application so you won’t get left out in the cold.

    Prem Sichanugrist
    February 23, 2016
    • Ruby
    • Rails
    • Web
  9. A Client Project, Two Years Later

    In 2013, we worked with T1D Exchange to develop a community platform. Two years later, we catch up with their in-house developer.

    Derek Prior
    November 4, 2015
    • Web
    • Ruby
  10. Announcing Administrate

    A Rails engine that helps you put together a super-flexible admin dashboard.

    Grayson Wright
    November 3, 2015
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    • Open Source
    • Rails
    • Ruby
    • Web
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