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Meditations on a Class Method

I keep a file of code I like. When looking for inspiration, I read through...
Mike Burns
July 31, 2014
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- Good Code
- Ruby
Ruby 2 keyword arguments

The Good, the Bad, and the Arity…
Ian C. Anderson
July 21, 2014
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- Ruby
Laptop Setup for an Awesome Development Environment

Don’t manually setup your new laptop with a series of copy-and-pasted steps from some blog post. Leverage automation and the open source community to save time and get a more stable result.
Dan Croak
June 18, 2014
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- Open Source
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- OS X
How Rails' Type Casting Works

Why is it that when you assign a property to an Active Record model and read it back, the value isn’t always the same?
Sage Griffin
June 16, 2014
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- Ruby
- Rails
Writing a Domain-Specific Language in Ruby

How to use instance_eval and patterns such as registries and proxies to create a beautiful DSL in Ruby.
Gabe Berke-Williams
May 28, 2014
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- Ruby
Styling a Middleman Blog with Bourbon, Neat, and Bitters

How to set up and style a Middleman static site with the Bourbon Sass suite.
Carolann Bonner
April 29, 2014
- Web
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- Bourbon
- Middleman
- Ruby
Shoulda Matchers 2.6.0

Announcing the latest version of Shoulda Matchers, now ready for Rails 4.1.
Elliot Winkler
April 14, 2014
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Introducing Hound

Introducing Hound, a hosted service that keeps your codebase clean by commenting on style guide violations or other linting issues in your GitHub pull requests.
Scott Albertson
April 9, 2014
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- Hound
- Ruby
- Good Code
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Back to Basics: Writing Unit Tests First

Step-by-step instructions for learning Test-Driven Development (TDD) in Ruby. There’s nothing to fear! It’s fun.
Britt Ballard
April 7, 2014
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- Back To Basics
- Ruby
- Rails
- Testing
Back to Basics: Polymorphism and Ruby

An in-depth look at polymorphism over inheritance in Ruby.
Britt Ballard
March 14, 2014
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- Back To Basics
- Ruby
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