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  1. What's New in Edge Rails: Active Record enums

    Try out enums, a new data structure macro in Rails.

    Prem Sichanugrist
    April 1, 2014
    • Web
    • Rails
  2. Streaming downloads proxy service with Node.js

    Use microservices to compose and analyse light-weight declarative data pipelines.

    Ismael Celis
    March 31, 2014
    • JavaScript
    • Rails
    • New Bamboo
    • Web
  3. Welcome Aboard: You're Riding iOS on Rails!

    Announcing a new book on writing an API in Ruby on Rails for iOS apps.

    Jessie Young
    March 27, 2014
    • News
    • Web
    • iOS
    • Books
  4. Back to Basics: Polymorphism and Ruby

    An in-depth look at polymorphism over inheritance in Ruby.

    Britt Ballard
    March 14, 2014
    • Web
    • Back To Basics
    • Ruby
  5. flexboxes + media queries = awesome layouts

    Flexboxes provide an awesome way of letting your web browser arrange the layout of your page in a systematic way.

    Lee Machin
    March 10, 2014
    • CSS
    • New Bamboo
    • Web
  6. Form Filling is Formulaic

    Write less form-related code in your Capybara tests with our newly open-sourced library, Formulaic.

    Caleb Hearth
    February 28, 2014
    • News
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    • Rails
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    • Formulaic
  7. EmberJS with a Separate Rails API

    What we learning writing an Ember.js app as a separate codebase, deployed separately from the backend Ruby on Rails API. Testing was particularly hard!

    Jason Draper
    February 25, 2014
    • Web
    • Ember
    • JavaScript
  8. Avoid the Three-state Boolean Problem

    Use null: false, default: false on boolean columns in ActiveRecord migrations to avoid NULL problems.

    Gabe Berke-Williams
    February 24, 2014
    • Web
    • PostgreSQL
  9. Using Arel to Compose SQL Queries

    Use composition to build more complex SQL queries in Ruby using ActiveRelation’s API.

    Sage Griffin
    February 17, 2014
    • Web
    • Rails
  10. Prevent Spoofing with Paperclip

    Paperclip 4.0 and 4.1 contain security fixes to prevent spoofing. A content type or filename validation is also now required.

    Jon Yurek
    February 14, 2014
    • Web
    • Ruby
    • Paperclip
    • Open Source
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