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How To Back Up A Heroku Production Database To Staging

Backup a production Heroku Postgres database to a staging environment.
Dan Croak
August 18, 2011
- Web
- Heroku
- PostgreSQL
Custom Formats for DateTime

Date::DATE_FORMATS is quite helpful. It lets you do this:...
Gabe Berke-Williams
August 16, 2011
- Web
- Rails
Paul Graham on Viaweb

We knew that e-commerce was really about graphic design, not transaction...
August 12, 2011
- Playbook
- Design
- Web
Never Fear, Traits are Here

I can’t count the number of times I’ve worked on Rails apps where I’m using...
Josh Clayton
August 12, 2011
- Web
- Ruby
- Open Source
- Testing
- Factory Bot
WIP it ♪♪♫♪ WIP it good

Our development process calls for a design component up front. Design is...
Harold Giménez
August 10, 2011
- Web
- Design
- Testing
2011 Rubyist's Guide To A Mac OS X Development Environment

Update: A better approach is detailed in Laptop Setup for an Awesome...
Dan Croak
August 9, 2011
- Web
- Ruby
- OS X
2.5 Ways to Execute a Shell Command

I always get confused by the difference between %x{}, backticks, and system...
Gabe Berke-Williams
August 3, 2011
- Web
- Ruby
Multiline strings in Capybara

When checking for a multiline string in Capybara, you need to use page.text...
Gabe Berke-Williams
August 2, 2011
- Web
- Testing
7 Minute Ab: Impatient Man's Load Tests For A Heroku App

A quick way to do a lightweight load test on Heroku.
Dan Croak
August 2, 2011
- Web
- Heroku
- Performance
- Testing
If You Gaze Into nil, nil Gazes Also Into You

Every developer runs into the dreaded nil object error: NoMethodError in...
Joe Ferris
July 28, 2011
- Web
- Ruby
- Good Code
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