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  1. Tips For Writing Your Own Rails Engine

    While converting Clearance to a Rails engine was easy, once we were there, we...

    Dan Croak
    April 23, 2009
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    • Rails
  2. Clearance Is A Rails Engine

    Clearance is now a Rails engine…BLAOW! Why Clearance has served...

    Dan Croak
    April 22, 2009
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  3. Nosy models

    Ruby’s “mixins” provide a simple, middle-ground option to developers that...

    Joe Ferris
    April 10, 2009
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  4. 2009 Rubyist's Guide To A Mac OS X Development Environment

    Update: A better approach is detailed in Laptop Setup for an Awesome...

    Dan Croak
    March 30, 2009
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  5. Shoulda 2.10: time for a little love for ActionController

    Shoulda’s ActiveRecord macros received some well-deserved attention in...

    Joe Ferris
    March 4, 2009
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  6. FactoryBot 1.2: Adding Excitement to Stale Factories

    Some like it hot The FactoryBot syntax was designed to balance...

    Joe Ferris
    February 17, 2009
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  7. Heroku Wearing Suspenders

    How to use suspenders to deploy apps to Heroku.

    Dan Croak
    January 12, 2009
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  8. irb & script/console tips

    Let’s get interactive. You can learn a lot about your application from irb...

    Dan Croak
    December 23, 2008
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  9. I Accidentally the Whole SMTP Exception

    You have a slick, exclusive, invite-only Web app for sharing Tor URLs, with...

    Mike Burns
    December 22, 2008
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  10. thoughtbot is filled with vim and vigor

    Slowly over the past year thoughtbot has turned from an all-TextMate (and one...

    December 19, 2008
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