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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
Code Review: Ruby and Rails Idioms

We often augment an existing Rails team or help build a Rails team on behalf...
Dan Croak
July 27, 2011
- Web
- Rails
Use Capybara On Any HTML Fragment Or Page

I was upgrading Gemcutter to Cucumber and Capybara 1.0 yesterday from...
Nick Quaranto
July 26, 2011
- Web
- Testing
- Ruby
- Rails
Backbone.js on Rails: a new dynamic ebook

We recently tweeted that this was the “summer of backbone.js”. 75% of our...
Chad Pytel
July 18, 2011
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- Rails
- JavaScript
Switching on an Attribute of Another Object

It is a bad idea to do a switch based on an attribute of another object. If...
July 8, 2011
- Web
- Ruby
- Good Code
High Ceremony Testing

You know what gets my hackles up? Blog posts like this one, where the author...
Jon Yurek
July 7, 2011
- Web
- Testing
Testing Cron on Heroku

Deploying cron to Heroku is really…pleasant. Click “Daily” or “Hourly” cron...
Nick Quaranto
July 5, 2011
- Web
- Testing
- Ruby
- Heroku
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