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  1. Parallel Gem Installing Using Bundler

    Do you realize how much time you’ve spent running bundle install? ] No more...

    Prem Sichanugrist
    August 28, 2013
    • Web
    • Ruby
  2. Use RSpec.vim with tmux and Dispatch

    (And Keep Your Screen Real Estate) As you may know, there are...

    Caleb Hearth
    August 12, 2013
    • Web
    • Vim
    • Ruby
    • Testing
    • tmux
    • Open Source
  3. Running Specs from Vim, Sent to tmux via Tslime

    When I first started working at thoughtbot, I was impressed to see some of my...

    Joël Quenneville
    August 8, 2013
    • Web
    • tmux
    • Vim
    • Ruby
    • Testing
  4. How to Create Postgres Indexes Concurrently in ActiveRecord Migrations

    By default, Postgres locks writes (but not reads) to a table while creating...

    Dan Croak
    July 30, 2013
    • Web
    • PostgreSQL
    • Ruby
  5. Taming Factory Bot List Creation

    There are times in your tests when you need to create multiple instances of...

    Derek Prior
    July 13, 2013
    • Web
    • Ruby
    • Testing
    • Factory Girl
    • Factory Bot
  6. PSA: Do not use system Ruby

    OS X Mavericks may ship with Ruby 2.0. Cool, right? Don’t touch it. ...

    Joel Oliveira
    June 28, 2013
    • Web
    • Ruby
  7. Sandi Metz' Rules For Developers

    Back in January, Sandi Metz introduced her rules for developers in a Ruby...

    Caleb Hearth
    May 17, 2013
    • Web
    • Ruby
  8. Ruby Science: You Down with OCP?

    Yeah, you know me. We just pushed the latest update to Ruby Science,...

    Joe Ferris
    May 10, 2013
    • Web
    • Ruby
  9. Using rbenv to Manage Rubies and Gems

    We recently switched from RVM to rbenv for managing Ruby versions. “Make...

    Laila Winner
    April 6, 2013
    • Web
    • Ruby
  10. Using GDB to Inspect a Running Ruby Process

    This job shouldn’t be taking this long! That’s not a great thing to have...

    Jon Yurek
    April 5, 2013
    • Web
    • Ruby
    • Unix
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