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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
- Web
- 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
- Web
- 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
- Design
- 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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- Ruby
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- Shoulda
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
Prevent Spoofing with Paperclip

Paperclip 4.0 and 4.1 contain security fixes to prevent spoofing. A content type or filename validation is also now required.
Jon Yurek
February 14, 2014
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- Ruby
- Paperclip
- Open Source
Code Show and Tell: PolymorphicFinder

An example of making complicated code easier to test by using the Builder, Decorator, Chain of Responsibility, and Null Object patterns and recursion, object composition, and immutable objects.
Joe Ferris
January 13, 2014
- Web
- Ruby
Caching API Requests

When making requests to an external service’s API, some requests will...
Dan Croak
November 29, 2013
- Web
- Ruby
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