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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
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
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
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
- Web
- Rails
- Open Source
- Formulaic
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
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
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
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
Custom Ember Computed Properties

How to refactor your own computed properties in Ember.js.
Jason Draper
February 14, 2014
- Web
- Ember
- JavaScript
Function Currying in CoffeeScript

Convert a CoffeeScript function that takes multiple arguments into a chain of functions that take one argument each. This is called function currying, and it can make your easier to understand!
Sage Griffin
February 12, 2014
- Web
- JavaScript
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