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  1. Tidy Views and Beyond with Decorators

    The problem Here’s a view serving monkeys#show. What’s wrong...

    Harold Giménez
    December 2, 2011
    • Web
    • Ruby
    • Testing
    • Rails
    • Good Code
  2. How to find a time format for Ruby's strftime

    Have you written a web application lately? If so, I bet you’ve been using...

    Joe Ferris
    November 16, 2011
    • Web
    • Ruby
  3. The One-Method Silent Killer in Your Cucumber Suite

    A regular expression bug in selector_for.

    Jason Morrison
    November 3, 2011
    • Web
    • Testing
    • Ruby
    • Good Code
  4. Design Patterns in the Wild: Null Object

    I knocked out a pretty decent refactoring of some of the internals of Factory...

    Josh Clayton
    November 1, 2011
    • Web
    • Ruby
    • Testing
    • Good Code
  5. Test Rake Tasks Like a BOSS

    Testing Rake tasks is one of the most painful things I do as a Ruby...

    Josh Clayton
    October 26, 2011
    • Web
    • Rails
    • Ruby
    • Testing
  6. capybara-webkit doesn't like #fork

    Tips for using capybara-webkit with cucumber suites and forking.

    Jon Yurek
    October 13, 2011
    • Web
    • Open Source
    • Unix
    • JavaScript
    • Ruby
    • Rails
    • Capybara Webkit
  7. Writing An API Client With Test, Staging, And Production In Mind

    How to work with different environments during API development.

    Dan Croak
    September 15, 2011
    • Web
    • Ruby
  8. Unobtrusive Ruby

    Thoughts on ruby that lets you work.

    Mike Burns
    September 12, 2011
    • Web
    • Good Code
    • Ruby
  9. A Paperclip Refactoring Tale: Part One: Dependency Injection

    High level walk through of a paperclip feature refactor.

    Mike Burns
    September 6, 2011
    • Web
    • Paperclip
    • Ruby
    • Good Code
  10. Recipe: A/B Testing With KISSMetrics And The Split Gem

    How do you set up A/B testing in a Rails app?

    Dan Croak
    August 30, 2011
    • Web
    • Redis
    • Ruby
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