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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
- News
- Web
- Ruby
- Testing
- Open Source
- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
Sweep Unused Code into the Dustbin with rcov

Find unused code in your Ruby test suite.
Joe Ferris
January 26, 2011
- Web
- Testing
- Ruby
Fetching Source Index for http://rubygems.org/

Why Bundler is slow.
Nick Quaranto
January 13, 2011
- Web
- Ruby
- Performance
Ruby's Pessimistic Operator

Do you know Ruby’s pessimistic operator? It looks like this: ~> You’ve...
Dan Croak
December 29, 2010
- Web
- Ruby
- Open Source
Learning Japanese the Rubyist way

If you know Ruby then you already know some Japanese grammar.
Makoto Inoue
December 17, 2010
- Japanese
- Ruby
- New Bamboo
- Web
Writing matchers for shoulda

Shoulda provides assertions that allow developers to quickly test common...
Joe Ferris
December 16, 2010
- Web
- Ruby
- Testing
- Shoulda
Fishing For Trout In Our Suspenders

The means by which we update our templates.
Dan Croak
December 14, 2010
- Web
- Open Source
- Ruby
- Rails
- Suspenders
Keep your privates close

A problem with the way we declare private methods in Ruby is the fact that...
Harold Giménez
November 30, 2010
- Web
- Ruby
- Good Code
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