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Deliver Email With Amazon SES In A Rails app

How to send email from a Rails app to Amazon SES.
Dan Croak
February 4, 2011
- Web
- Rails
cURLing with Rails' Authenticity Token

How to use cURL to save Rails’ authenticity token, and the POST to a Rails endpoint.
Dan Croak
January 31, 2011
- Web
- Rails
- News
Sweep Unused Code into the Dustbin with rcov

Find unused code in your Ruby test suite.
Joe Ferris
January 26, 2011
- Web
- Testing
- Ruby
Do It Yourself @font-face Web Service

How to run your own web font service.
Dan Croak
January 14, 2011
- News
- Web
- Sinatra
- Design
Fetching Source Index for http://rubygems.org/

Why Bundler is slow.
Nick Quaranto
January 13, 2011
- Web
- Ruby
- Performance
PostgreSQL Performance Considerations

Know the Postgres index types such as multicolumn indexes and partial indexes, don’t over-index, use more joins, prefer INNER JOINs, understand the EXPLAIN output, and don’t try to optimize on your development machine.
Harold Giménez
January 7, 2011
Use Deadweight in Your Integration Suite to Automatically Find Unused CSS Rules

How to find unused CSS rules in your Ruby test suite.
Jason Morrison
January 4, 2011
- Web
- Testing
- CSS
Ruby's Pessimistic Operator

Do you know Ruby’s pessimistic operator? It looks like this: ~> You’ve...
Dan Croak
December 29, 2010
- Web
- Ruby
- Open Source
Let it REST

You are building a boring blog application. A blog has many comments. Your...
Harold Giménez
December 22, 2010
- Web
- Good Code
- Rails
Yuletide Logs and MongoDB Capped Collections

This Christmas, maybe you’re thinking of the long trip back home through...
Nick Quaranto
December 21, 2010
- Web
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