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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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- Web
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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
Fewer Rails Flash Messages

Clearance 0.12.0 was released last week with a continued focus on user and...
Dan Croak
July 5, 2011
- Web
- Rails
- Clearance
New Factory Bot Definition Syntax

factory_bot and factory_bot_rails release candidates were released this week...
Dan Croak
July 3, 2011
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- Web
- Ruby
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- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
Copycopter: Introducing a Simpler Way to Edit Copy

Around four months ago we launched our service for managing copy text in web...
Joe Ferris
June 14, 2011
- News
- Web
- Copycopter
Redis Pub/Sub... How Does it Work?

Redis is a key/value store, but it’s jam-packed with a ton of other little...
Nick Quaranto
June 8, 2011
- Web
- Redis
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