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Segment.io and Ruby

Use Segment.io’s Ruby library to track usage patterns within a Rails application.
Josh Clayton
July 30, 2014
- Web
- Rails
- Testing
- Analytics
Why Postgres Won't Always Use an Index

Use SQL EXPLAIN to understand when and why indexes are used (or not).
Simon Taranto
July 25, 2014
- Web
- Performance
- PostgreSQL
- SQL
An Explained psqlrc

Let’s walk through my short psqlrc(5) to see what I’ve set, and to inspire...
Mike Burns
July 24, 2014
- Web
- PostgreSQL
Ruby 2 keyword arguments

The Good, the Bad, and the Arity…
Ian C. Anderson
July 21, 2014
- Web
- Ruby
Let Your Code Speak For Itself

Comments are like playing telephone. Avoid them with clearer method names.
Adarsh Pandit
July 16, 2014
- Web
- Good Code
Preload Resource Data into AngularJS

Preloading, or bootstrapping, data resources from the server via HTML is a...
Greg Lazarev
July 15, 2014
- Web
- JavaScript
- AngularJS
Laptop Setup for an Awesome Development Environment

Don’t manually setup your new laptop with a series of copy-and-pasted steps from some blog post. Leverage automation and the open source community to save time and get a more stable result.
Dan Croak
June 18, 2014
- Web
- Open Source
- Ruby
- Rails
- Unix
- OS X
Foolproof I18n Setup in Rails

Let’s make I18n on Rails better, quickly and easily. These tips have helped...
Gabe Berke-Williams
June 17, 2014
- Web
- Rails
How Rails' Type Casting Works

Why is it that when you assign a property to an Active Record model and read it back, the value isn’t always the same?
Sage Griffin
June 16, 2014
- Web
- Ruby
- Rails
Applicative Options Parsing in Haskell

I’ve just finished work on a small command line client for the Heroku Build...
Pat Brisbin
June 13, 2014
- Web
- Haskell
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