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Recover Data from Production Backups with ActiveRecord

Sometimes things go awry with production data and you need to recover. Here’s one way to do it.
Bernerd Schaefer
April 13, 2016
- Web
- Ruby
Announcing Bamboo, Email with a Functional Twist

Bamboo is a testable, composable and adapter-based email library for Elixir.
Paul Smith
April 4, 2016
- Elixir
- Email
Design Leadership & Culture at thoughtbot

Design culture and leadership has become a huge focus in the tech industry. thoughtbot is always focused on both, and this is how we’ve been improving recently.
Andrew Cohen
March 31, 2016
- Design
Post-PLIBMTTBHGATY Portland Précis

Earlier this month we organized our first event in Portland: Programming Languages I’ve Been Meaning To Try But Haven’t Gotten Around To Yet.
Bernerd Schaefer
March 29, 2016
- Portland
Paperclip is ready for Rails 5

We released Paperclip v5.0.0.beta1.
Tute Costa
March 25, 2016
- Paperclip
- Open Source
Start Simple

Ship faster by starting simple.
Blake Williams
March 21, 2016
- Productivity
- Web
Rebuilding Git in Ruby

From zero to commit! Let’s rebuild Git with a more familiar approach for Rails developers to get a better understanding on how Git works under the hood.
Joël Quenneville
March 14, 2016
- Git
- Ruby
Advanced ActiveRecord Querying, Now on Upcase

Master ActiveRecord and take full advantage of your database with our newest course on Upcase.
Chris Toomey
March 10, 2016
- Upcase
- Rails
- News
Force push with care

A gentler git push --force.
Tute Costa
March 10, 2016
- Git
- Tools
Executing Elevated Commands in Your Current Environment

No more maintaining multiple versions of gems for your system Ruby!
Justin Kenyon
March 9, 2016
- Ruby
- Unix
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