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  1. Test-Driven Rails Helper

    This is how I unit tested a view helper to format a date range in a view. I...

    Dan Croak
    October 15, 2009
    • Web
    • Testing
    • Rails
  2. Using Sammy for changing page state

    Introduction to Sammy, a really neat Javascript framework, loosely based on Ruby’s Sinatra framework.

    Max Williams
    October 14, 2009
    • JavaScript
    • New Bamboo
    • Web
  3. Slave To The Intepreter

    I think of Ruby as the “free love” language. Yet, even Ruby can put the...

    Dan Croak
    October 13, 2009
    • Web
    • Ruby
  4. Code Cowboy

    I’ve written before about lightweight access control using Inherited...

    Dan Croak
    October 12, 2009
    • Web
    • Rails
    • Open Source
  5. Testing ActiveRecord Named Scopes

    Everyone was psyched when Nick Kallen’s has_finder plugin was added to Rails...

    Dan Croak
    September 29, 2009
    • Web
    • Testing
    • Ruby
    • Rails
  6. Swallow Nil

    I’ve been using this for about a year and a half. Abomination or legitimate...

    Dan Croak
    September 18, 2009
    • Web
    • Ruby
    • Good Code
  7. Role Suggesting Name

    Consider a CreditCard class: class CreditCard < ActiveRecord::Base ...

    Dan Croak
    September 18, 2009
    • Web
    • Rails
    • Good Code
  8. How to Ruin a jQuery Plug-in: Markup

    jQuery is one of my favorite libraries, in any language. And one of the...

    Tristan Dunn
    September 17, 2009
    • Web
    • JavaScript
  9. Five Ridiculously Awesome Cucumber (and Webrat) Features

    Cucumber, if you haven’t heard, is the Next Big Thing™. It affords...

    Josh Clayton
    September 16, 2009
    • Web
    • Rails
    • Testing
  10. Zsh completion for your tests and specs

    Got zsh? Loving your TATFT but tired of typing out all those spec commands?...

    Jason Morrison
    September 11, 2009
    • Web
    • Unix
    • Testing
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