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  1. My Conscience Won't Let Me Call Ruby a Computer Language

    My conscience won’t let me call Ruby a computer language. That would imply...

    March 24, 2012
    • Web
    • Ruby
  2. Factory Bot Hits 3.0!

    Factory Bot is now 3.0! It’s been a wonderful eight months and I’m really...

    Josh Clayton
    March 23, 2012
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    • Ruby
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    • Factory Girl
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  3. Do End Your Braces

    Braces and do/end are completely swappable—almost all the time. They have...

    Mike Burns
    March 19, 2012
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    • Ruby
    • Testing
  4. Short, Explicit Test Setups

    You probably know about this Factory Bot1 definition syntax:...

    Dan Croak
    March 12, 2012
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    • Ruby
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  5. Watch for Turbulence

    Give low complexity to your high-churn code.

    Mike Burns
    February 24, 2012
    • Web
    • Good Code
  6. How To Use Arguments In a Rake Task

    I came across this today. You can write Rake tasks that accept arguments,...

    Chad Pytel
    February 23, 2012
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  7. Anonymizing User, Company, and Location Data Using Faker

    Often during development it’s useful to have realistic data to get a sense of...

    Adarsh Pandit
    February 22, 2012
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    • Rails
  8. Derive #inject for a better understanding

    Let’s talk about Enumerable#inject. It’s special to me. In other cultures...

    Mike Burns
    February 17, 2012
    • Web
    • Ruby
    • Good Code
  9. Wildcards In Rails Redirects

    The captured wildcard in a Rails 3 route can be used in the redirect method:...

    Dan Croak
    February 15, 2012
    • Web
    • Rails
  10. How to Apply What You've Learned from TDD to Writing Data Migrations

    After doing TDD full time for years, I have a hard time writing code without...

    Joe Ferris
    February 13, 2012
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    • Ruby
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