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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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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
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- 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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- 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
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- Ruby
Caching API Requests

When making requests to an external service’s API, some requests will...
Dan Croak
November 29, 2013
- Web
- Ruby
Anti-Pattern: Iteratively Building a Collection

How Ruby’s Enumerable module can turn lengthy, verbose iterations into clear abstractions.
Mike Burns
November 25, 2013
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- Ruby
Ruby and Python Libraries for Yammer's API

We’ve worked closely with folks at Yammer to help developers build...
Adarsh Pandit
November 24, 2013
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- Python
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