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Options for adding a blog to a Rails application

TL;DR: roll your own.
Tute Costa
November 18, 2016
- Rails
- Blog
- Web
Announcing FormLinter

A tool for making better forms.
Ben Orenstein
November 9, 2016
- Formkeep
- Design
- Web
- News
Composition vs Inheritance

Choose the right tool for the job when building modular software.
Joël Quenneville
November 3, 2016
- Web
- Ruby
- Good Code
Building Reusable Object-Oriented Systems: Composition

Using composition to build modular object-oriented systems.
Joël Quenneville
November 2, 2016
- Web
- Ruby
- Good Code
Building Reusable Object-Oriented Systems: Modules

Solving the combinatorial explosion problem with multiple inheritance.
Joël Quenneville
November 1, 2016
- Web
- Ruby
- Good Code
Building Reusable Object-Oriented Systems: Inheritance

Using inheritance to share common logic.
Joël Quenneville
October 31, 2016
- Web
- Ruby
- Good Code
PostgreSQL's Foreign Data Wrapper

Write queries that combine data from multiple sources.
George Brocklehurst
October 28, 2016
- PostgreSQL
Is Your Site Leaking Password Reset Links?

Emailed password reset links are a common part of web applications. Is your site leaking these confidential links to third party sites?
Derek Prior
October 24, 2016
- Web
- Security
Acceptance Tests with Subdomains

How to use subdomains in your feature specs.
Damian Galarza
October 10, 2016
- Ruby
- Testing
- Capybara
Announcing Constable, an open source Phoenix application

Check out a production ready Elixir/Phoenix application.
Blake Williams and Paul Smith
October 4, 2016
- Elixir
- Phoenix
- Web
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