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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
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
Never Fear, Traits are Here

I can’t count the number of times I’ve worked on Rails apps where I’m using...
Josh Clayton
August 12, 2011
- Web
- Ruby
- Open Source
- Testing
- Factory Bot
2011 Rubyist's Guide To A Mac OS X Development Environment

Update: A better approach is detailed in Laptop Setup for an Awesome...
Dan Croak
August 9, 2011
- Web
- Ruby
- OS X
2.5 Ways to Execute a Shell Command

I always get confused by the difference between %x{}, backticks, and system...
Gabe Berke-Williams
August 3, 2011
- Web
- Ruby
If You Gaze Into nil, nil Gazes Also Into You

Every developer runs into the dreaded nil object error: NoMethodError in...
Joe Ferris
July 28, 2011
- Web
- Ruby
- Good Code
Use Capybara On Any HTML Fragment Or Page

I was upgrading Gemcutter to Cucumber and Capybara 1.0 yesterday from...
Nick Quaranto
July 26, 2011
- Web
- Testing
- Ruby
- Rails
Switching on an Attribute of Another Object

It is a bad idea to do a switch based on an attribute of another object. If...
July 8, 2011
- Web
- Ruby
- Good Code
Testing Cron on Heroku

Deploying cron to Heroku is really…pleasant. Click “Daily” or “Hourly” cron...
Nick Quaranto
July 5, 2011
- Web
- Testing
- Ruby
- Heroku
New Factory Bot Definition Syntax

factory_bot and factory_bot_rails release candidates were released this week...
Dan Croak
July 3, 2011
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