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How to Evaluate Your Rails JSON API for Performance Improvements

Before adding database indexes, eager loading, and caches, spend a few minutes at the whiteboard with your team to rethink the high-level requirements for your JSON API.
Laila Winner
February 10, 2014
- Web
- Performance
- Rails
Back to Basics: HTTP Requests in Rails Apps

An in-depth look at HTTP requests and how Ajax works in Rails.
Britt Ballard
February 5, 2014
- Web
- Back To Basics
- HTTP
- Rails
Automatically Wait for AJAX with Capybara

How to use Capybara’s wait_for_ajax helper.
Gabe Berke-Williams
February 4, 2014
- Web
- Rails
- Testing
ActiveRecord's where.not

Make clunky negation queries in ActiveRecord easier to read.
Gabe Berke-Williams
January 24, 2014
- Web
- Rails
How we test Rails applications

We use RSpec feature and specs heavily, controller and view specs more judiciously, FactoryBot for test data, JavaScript integration specs with Poltergeist or Capybara Webkit, like test doubles and test spies but not test mocks, and we stub external requests with Webmock.
Josh Steiner
January 14, 2014
- Web
- Rails
- Testing
Code Show and Tell: PolymorphicFinder

An example of making complicated code easier to test by using the Builder, Decorator, Chain of Responsibility, and Null Object patterns and recursion, object composition, and immutable objects.
Joe Ferris
January 13, 2014
- Web
- Ruby
Handling Associations on Null Objects

How to use ActiveRecord’s NullRelation.
Sage Griffin
January 10, 2014
- Web
- Rails
Rendering Collections in Rails

Partials are a great way to break down complex view into more manageable...
Joël Quenneville
December 31, 2013
- Web
- Rails
Clearer Conditionals using De Morgan's Laws

Ever seen a hard-to-parse conditional like this? def allow_access_to_site? ...
Gabe Berke-Williams
December 20, 2013
- Web
- Good Code
Animating Modals in Angular.js

The end result is a beautiful transition and zero conditionals.
Sage Griffin
December 17, 2013
- Design
- Web
- JavaScript
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