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Always Define respond_to_missing? When Overriding method_missing

method_missing is still considered scary, but here’s something more scary:...
Mike Burns
July 30, 2012
- Web
- Ruby
Playbook video, "Development", now unlocked!

We’ve just unlocked the 4th video in the The Playbook: Video Edition:...
Chad Pytel
July 28, 2012
- News
- Web
- Playbook
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Riding a Mountain Lion

Update: A better approach is detailed in Laptop Setup for an Awesome...
Prem Sichanugrist
July 25, 2012
- Web
- Rails
- OS X
Name It

There will be Ruby in the middle of this blog post. But first, a tangent in...
Mike Burns
July 24, 2012
- Web
- Ruby
- Good Code
Tell, Don't Ask

And now, a friendly message from your local Tell, don’t ask Department. ...
Ben Orenstein
July 19, 2012
- Web
- Ruby
- Good Code
Writing Better Cucumber Scenarios; or, Why We're Deprecating FactoryBot's Cucumber Steps

For almost three years now, FactoryBot1 has provided developers using...
Josh Clayton
June 25, 2012
- Web
- Ruby
- Testing
- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
How Much Should I Refactor?

The Rails community has been abuzz with object-oriented programming, SOLID...
Joe Ferris
June 25, 2012
- Web
- Good Code
Backbone.js on Rails hits 1.0

Almost 1 year ago, on July 18, 2011, we announced our book, Backbone.js on...
Chad Pytel
June 23, 2012
- News
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- JavaScript
- Books
Olympic Medal Rivalry

Answering questions using the medal results of the 2012 Olympic Games.
Makoto Inoue
June 22, 2012
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- Web
Ask the Giant Robots

Have a question for us about code, software development methodologies,...
Chad Pytel
June 6, 2012
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