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Factories Should be the Bare Minimum

Keep it simple.
Matt Sumner
April 26, 2016
- Testing
- Rails
- Factory Girl
- Web
- Factory Bot
Recover Data from Production Backups with ActiveRecord

Sometimes things go awry with production data and you need to recover. Here’s one way to do it.
Bernerd Schaefer
April 13, 2016
- Web
- Ruby
Start Simple

Ship faster by starting simple.
Blake Williams
March 21, 2016
- Productivity
- Web
Building a Ping Pong Scoreboard

How we built a scoreboard for our ping pong table as a hack day project.
Dan Barber
March 1, 2016
- Web
- Ruby
- JavaScript
- Hardware
- Hack Day
- Project
- Ping Pong
Brace Yourselves, Rails Upgrade is Coming

How to prepare your Rails application so you won’t get left out in the cold.
Prem Sichanugrist
February 23, 2016
- Ruby
- Rails
- Web
To gem, or not to gem

Writing software is an active, thoughtful practice. Choosing gems requires as much consideration as writing code.
Elle Meredith
February 19, 2016
- Rails
- Web
Announcing Scenic - Versioned Database Views for Rails

Database views can improve the performance, composability, and readability of your rails application and Scenic is here to help.
Derek Prior
January 11, 2016
- PostgreSQL
- Rails
- Web
Email confirmation with Clearance

Leverage Clearance’s guards to add email confirmation to your Rails app.
Tute Costa
December 23, 2015
- Clearance
- TDD
- Web
Data Migrations in Rails

A discussion about the reasons for using Active Record migrations vs. temporary rake tasks for data manipulations.
Elle Meredith
December 8, 2015
- Rails
- Data
- Suspenders
- Web
Hound Checks JavaScript Code Style

Announcing JSCS support for Hound.
Sean Doyle
December 2, 2015
- Hound
- JavaScript
- Style Guides
- Web
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