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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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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  9. Sweep Unused Code into the Dustbin with rcov

    Find unused code in your Ruby test suite.

    Joe Ferris
    January 26, 2011
    • Web
    • Testing
    • Ruby
  10. Fetching Source Index for http://rubygems.org/

    Why Bundler is slow.

    Nick Quaranto
    January 13, 2011
    • Web
    • Ruby
    • Performance
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