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Humans Present: Refactoring

In the latest Humans Present, I sit down with Joe Ferris, our CTO, and we...
Chad Pytel
May 5, 2012
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- Upcase
- Web
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I Suck at Testing

Testing is widespread in the Rails community, which is awesome. For most new...
Jason Draper
May 4, 2012
- Web
- Testing
Come Correct with Inject and Collect

Here’s a refactoring example for a simple Ruby math problem using the inject...
Adarsh Pandit
May 3, 2012
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- Ruby
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Date and Time Formats for Pirates

Need to display a date in your Rails app? First try: Time.now.strftime...
Alex Berry
April 27, 2012
- Web
- Rails
FactoryBot 3.2: so awesome it needs to be released during RailsConf

FactoryBot 3.2 brings a slew of new features; while I’d considered breaking...
Josh Clayton
April 24, 2012
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Turnip: A Tasty Cucumber Alternative?

We’ve used Cucumber heavily and successfully on client work, internal...
Harlow Ward
April 21, 2012
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Meet thoughtbot at Railsconf 2012

We’ve had an abnormally warm Winter and Spring in Boston this year, but...
Joe Ferris
April 20, 2012
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Time.now Is On My Side

I needed an open? method. First try: def open? opens_at < Time.now <...
Dan Croak
April 16, 2012
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- Ruby
Decorators Compared To Strategies, Composites, and Presenters

We’ve been paying closer attention lately to how we use design patterns in...
Dan Croak
April 12, 2012
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- Ruby
Rails Refactoring Example: Introduce Null Object

You probably don’t write code like this: if object.kind_of?(User) do_this...
Dan Croak
April 11, 2012
- Web
- Rails
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