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Lazy Refactoring

Look over our shoulder as we refactor and optimize a set of queries.
Joël Quenneville and Matt Sumner
November 7, 2014
- Web
- Ruby
- Good Code
Refactoring From Model to View Helper to Null Object

We are working to add more thorough progress tracking to upcase.com. Chad...
Tute Costa
October 10, 2014
- Web
- Rails
- Ruby
- Upcase
Back to Basics: Anonymous Functions and Closures

Anonymous functions and closures are a useful concepts included in most...
Britt Ballard
October 10, 2014
- Web
- Back To Basics
- Good Code
- Ruby
- JavaScript
Hound Reviews JavaScript For Style Violations

In addition to Ruby and CoffeeScript, Hound now reviews JavaScript code for style violations using JSHint.
Scott Albertson
October 2, 2014
- Web
- Hound
- JavaScript
- Ruby
IO in Ruby

Learn about Ruby’s beautiful, duck-typed approach to Input/Output.
Joël Quenneville
October 1, 2014
- Web
- Ruby
- Unix
Prefer Objects as Method Parameters, Not Class Names

In an application we worked on, we presented users with multiple choice...
Joe Ferris
September 26, 2014
- Web
- Ruby
- Good Code
Validating JSON Schemas with an RSpec Matcher

Use RSpec and JSON Schema to create a test-driven process in which changes to the structure of your JSON API drive the implementation of new features.
Laila Winner
September 23, 2014
- Web
- JSON
- Ruby
- RSpec
- Testing
Back to Basics: SOLID

SOLID is an acronym created by Bob Martin and Michael Feathers that refers to...
Britt Ballard
September 3, 2014
- Web
- iOS
- Back To Basics
- Good Code
- Ruby
- Swift
Acceptance Tests at a Single Level of Abstraction

Each acceptance test tells a story: a logical progression through a task...
Josh Clayton
September 2, 2014
- Web
- Ruby
- Rails
- Testing
DNS to CDN to Origin

Content Distribution Networks (CDNs) such as Amazon CloudFront and Fastly...
Dan Croak
August 8, 2014
- Web
- Performance
- Ruby
- DNS
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