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  1. Testing Your Style With ESLint and Mocha

    Use ESLint and Mocha to generate tests for the style of your codebase.

    Blake Williams
    May 4, 2016
    • JavaScript
    • Style
    • Web
  2. Routing in Elm with Hop and Mailboxes

    Elegant routing in Elm with Hop.

    Josh Clayton
    May 3, 2016
    • Elm
    • Web
  3. Factories Should be the Bare Minimum

    Keep it simple.

    Matt Sumner
    April 26, 2016
    • Testing
    • Rails
    • Factory Girl
    • Web
    • Factory Bot
  4. 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
  5. Start Simple

    Ship faster by starting simple.

    Blake Williams
    March 21, 2016
    • Productivity
    • Web
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. Email confirmation with Clearance

    Leverage Clearance’s guards to add email confirmation to your Rails app.

    Tute Costa
    December 23, 2015
    • Clearance
    • TDD
    • Web
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