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Bridging Elm and JavaScript with Ports

Elm is strongly-typed; JavaScript is not. Communication between the two is paramount for large applications and ports enable this.
Josh Clayton
October 25, 2017
- Elm
- JavaScript
- Web
factory_bot

factory_girl is becoming factory_bot.
Avielle Wolfe and Josh Clayton
October 24, 2017
- News
- Web
- Rails
- Testing
- RSpec
- Ruby
- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
Modeling with Union Types

Clean up Maybe by modeling multiple shapes of data with union types.
Joël Quenneville
October 13, 2017
- Elm
- Web
Redux for Chrome Extensions

An intro to functional state management for your Chrome extensions using Redux.
Bruno Antunes
October 2, 2017
- Web
- JavaScript
- Chrome
- Redux
Access Ruby Hash Values with Fallbacks for Missing Data

Find out different ways to access hash values in Ruby and save the dinosaurs at the same time.
Rob Whittaker
September 25, 2017
- Code
- Rails
- Ruby
- Web
Debugging Why Your Specs Have Slowed Down

Your test suite used to be lightning fast but now it’s starting to feel a bit sluggish. Before adding CI parallelization, let’s see if there’s any clutter to remove.
Mike Wenger
September 22, 2017
- Testing
- Ruby
- Rails
- Factory Girl
- Web
- Factory Bot
Booleans and Enums

Refactor common Boolean smells using enums (union types).
Joël Quenneville
September 20, 2017
- Web
- Elm
- Good Code
Better Date Manipulation in PostgreSQL Queries

Use interval and date_trunc to make working with SQL dates easier.
Derrick Carr
September 19, 2017
- PostgreSQL
- SQL
- Data
- Web
Styling a Middleman Blog with the Bourbon Suite: Revisited

In 2014 we wrote about how to get up and running with Middleman and Bourbon. This article revisits that technical stack for 2017.
Cristina Silva
September 15, 2017
- Middleman
- Bourbon
- Design
- Web
Lean & Maintainable Reports with Heroku Dataclips

Write testable reports in SQL that don’t erode over time.
Oli Peate
August 21, 2017
- Data
- Heroku
- Rails
- Web
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