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Workflows for Writing Migrations With Rollbacks in Mind

Sleep better at night knowing your migrations are reversible.
Simon Taranto
May 29, 2014
- Web
- Rails
Writing a Domain-Specific Language in Ruby

How to use instance_eval and patterns such as registries and proxies to create a beautiful DSL in Ruby.
Gabe Berke-Williams
May 28, 2014
- Web
- Ruby
SSL for Rails with Heroku and DNSimple

Buy, prepare, and deploy an SSL certificate from DNSimple for your Heroku app.
Dan Croak
May 21, 2014
- Web
- DNS
- Rails
Project Retrospective: Reserve A Game

Observe our process launching an early-stage startup’s web application.
Lydia Damon
May 20, 2014
- News
- Design
Refactoring with an Apprentice

Walk through a refactoring of Ruby on Rails test code and observe lessons in Rails idioms, setting up only necessary test data, and extracting methods.
Eric Allen
May 19, 2014
- Web
- Good Code
- Testing
- Apprenticeship
Writing a Server Sent Events server in Go

Learn how Go can be used to keep open network connections and broadcast messages over the web.
Ismael Celis
May 13, 2014
- Go
- New Bamboo
- Web
Back to Basics: Regular Expressions

Regular expressions are a core skill for developers in any language. Revisit the basics with us to master this foundational technique.
Britt Ballard
May 12, 2014
- Back To Basics
- Regex
Tips for Clojure Beginners

Straightforward advice for those getting started.
Ben Orenstein
May 8, 2014
- Web
- Clojure
Document Explicit Dependencies Through Tests

Split your spec_helper.rb file into a minimal spec_helper.rb file and a rails_helper.rb file to load only the necessary dependencies in a spec. This is now the default in Rails.
Greg Lazarev
May 6, 2014
- Web
- Rails
- Testing
Thinking in Types

A programming language with a type system can help you design abstractions and avoid mistakes.
Pat Brisbin
May 2, 2014
- Web
- Haskell
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