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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
Danger, danger: High Voltage vulnerability

Version 1.2.0 of high_voltage is a security fix.
Mike Burns
September 10, 2012
- News
- Web
- Ruby
- Open Source
- High Voltage
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
Creating a URL String in Ruby

Josh Clayton recently posted about Mind Bending Factories – demonstrating...
Matt Jankowski
August 3, 2012
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- Testing
Expressing the problem

Trade-offs between data and behavior.
Mike Burns
August 1, 2012
- Web
- Ruby
- Good Code
Mind-Bending Factories

People often forget that FactoryBot1 is just using Ruby to instantiate...
Josh Clayton
July 31, 2012
- Web
- Ruby
- Testing
- Open Source
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
- Web
- Ruby
Name It

There will be Ruby in the middle of this blog post. But first, a tangent in...
Mike Burns
July 24, 2012
- Web
- Ruby
- Good Code
Tell, Don't Ask

And now, a friendly message from your local Tell, don’t ask Department. ...
Ben Orenstein
July 19, 2012
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- Good Code
Writing Better Cucumber Scenarios; or, Why We're Deprecating FactoryBot's Cucumber Steps

For almost three years now, FactoryBot1 has provided developers using...
Josh Clayton
June 25, 2012
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- Ruby
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- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
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