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  1. Four-Phase Test

    The Four-Phase Test is a testing pattern, applicable to all programming...

    Dan Croak
    September 28, 2012
    • Web
    • Ruby
    • Testing
  2. Hidden Gems: Suspenders

    Suspenders is all the boilerplate you need for a Rails app.

    Mike Burns
    September 25, 2012
    • Web
    • Ruby
    • Open Source
    • Rails
    • Suspenders
  3. Protect your privates

    A survey of private vs protected in rails controllers.

    Joe Ferris
    September 18, 2012
    • Web
    • Ruby
  4. 8 New Steps for Fixing Other People's Code

    Way back in mid-2007, when Rails 1.2 was the new hotness and GitHub was still...

    Alex Grant
    September 15, 2012
    • Web
    • Git
    • Ruby
    • Open Source
    • Testing
  5. Danger, danger: High Voltage vulnerability

    Version 1.2.0 of high_voltage is a security fix.

    Mike Burns
    September 10, 2012
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  6. Ruby and KISS: Sitting in a Tree

    I learned a lot of things in the Marines, but one takeaway which applies...

    Josh Clayton
    August 16, 2012
    • Web
    • Rails
    • Ruby
  7. Creating a URL String in Ruby

    Josh Clayton recently posted about Mind Bending Factories – demonstrating...

    Matt Jankowski
    August 3, 2012
    • Web
    • Ruby
    • Testing
  8. Expressing the problem

    Trade-offs between data and behavior.

    Mike Burns
    August 1, 2012
    • Web
    • Ruby
    • Good Code
  9. Mind-Bending Factories

    People often forget that FactoryBot1 is just using Ruby to instantiate...

    Josh Clayton
    July 31, 2012
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    • Testing
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  10. Always Define respond_to_missing? When Overriding method_missing

    method_missing is still considered scary, but here’s something more scary:...

    Mike Burns
    July 30, 2012
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    • Ruby
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