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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
Ten Years of the Giant Robots Blog

Today marks 10 years of writing, editing, and publishing this blog, Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots. Here’s a few things we did along the way to improve our happiness and the quality of the content.
Dan Croak, Joël Quenneville & Gabe Berke-Williams
November 6, 2015
- Analytics
- Automation
- Middleman
- Productivity
- Web
One Year Inside The Bike Shed

The Bike Shed turns one year old this month. Let’s look at the evolution and future of the show.
Derek Prior
November 5, 2015
- Web
- Podcast
- News
A Client Project, Two Years Later

In 2013, we worked with T1D Exchange to develop a community platform. Two years later, we catch up with their in-house developer.
Derek Prior
November 4, 2015
- Web
- Ruby
Announcing Administrate

A Rails engine that helps you put together a super-flexible admin dashboard.
Grayson Wright
November 3, 2015
- News
- Open Source
- Rails
- Ruby
- Web
ExMachina for Elixir: Factories with a Functional Twist

Announcing a new factory library for Elixir.
Josh Steiner and Paul Smith
November 2, 2015
- Elixir
- Testing
- Web
Basic CSS Selector Syntax Explained Using Cats

CSS can be tricky. Learn some basic selector syntax with cats!
Mike Borsare
October 26, 2015
- Fun
- CSS
- Design
- Web
- Frontend
- Back To Basics
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