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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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- Ruby
- Testing
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- Factory Girl
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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
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