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Chain RSpec Matchers for Improved Test Readability

Improve test readability by leveraging RSpec’s matcher composition to make multiple assertions with a single matcher.
Josh Clayton
March 9, 2017
- Web
- RSpec
- Ruby
- Rails
- Testing
Spend Your Divergence Wisely

Complexity makes apps harder to use and harder to maintain. We can avoid that unnecessary complexity by starting with good defaults and from there making informed decisions about where to diverge from them.
Mason Fischer
March 2, 2017
- Good Code
- Techniques
- Web
Neat 2.0 Building the future of floated Sass grids

Understanding different types of existing float grid systems, finding their strengths/weaknesses, and discovering something better.
Will H McMahan
February 22, 2017
- Neat
- Bourbon
- Design
- Sass
- Open Source
- Web
How to manage your Python projects with Pipenv

Use Pipenv to simplify the management of dependencies in your Python projects.
Murtaza Gulamali
February 20, 2017
- Python
- DevTools
- Web
Validation, Database Constraint, or Both?

What happens when we stop using validations for data integrity and instead use them for user interface?
Derek Prior
February 15, 2017
- Web
- Rails
Block Web Crawlers with Rails

Search engines “crawl” and “index” web content through programs called robots (a.k.a. crawlers or spiders). Here are some approaches to blocking them in Ruby on Rails apps.
Dan Croak
February 10, 2017
- Rails
- Ruby
- SEO
- Web
Learning by helping

How helping others made me a better developer.
Joël Quenneville
February 9, 2017
- Web
- Community
- Elm
Running Project Mix Commands from Any Directory

How I discovered how to run project-specific Mix commands from any directory.
Jake Craige
February 3, 2017
- Elixir
- Web
Special Sale on Upcase and RubyTapas

If you’re going to be writing Ruby in 2017, I have some good news.
Ben Orenstein
February 1, 2017
- News
- Upcase
- Ruby
- Web
Hound Introduces Style Guides for Organizations

Hound now allows you set styles for your entire organization.
Rob Whittaker
February 1, 2017
- Hound
- News
- Open Source
- Style Guides
- Web
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