How to Evaluate Your Rails JSON API for Performance Improvements Before adding database indexes, eager loading, and caches, spend a few minutes at the whiteboard with your team to rethink the high-level requirements for your JSON API. Laila Winner February 10, 2014 Web Performance Rails
Announcing gitsh Announcing a new open source library, gitsh, for running Git in a dedicated shell. George Brocklehurst February 10, 2014 News Git Open Source
rcm, an rc file manager Announcing a new open source library, rcm, for managing dotfiles. Mike Burns February 6, 2014 Unix Open Source
Back to Basics: HTTP Requests in Rails Apps An in-depth look at HTTP requests and how Ajax works in Rails. Britt Ballard February 5, 2014 Web Back To Basics HTTP Rails
Automatically Wait for AJAX with Capybara How to use Capybara’s wait_for_ajax helper. Gabe Berke-Williams February 4, 2014 Web Rails Testing
Opening an Austin Office We are opening a thoughtbot office in Austin, Texas. Hire us for web and mobile design and development. Our typical stack is Ruby on Rails and iOS. Britt Ballard February 3, 2014 News Austin
How to Edit an Existing Vim Macro Don’t start over. Edit the register visually. Rich Rines January 31, 2014 Vim
Replacing NERDTree with Ctrl-P Using a fuzzy finder like Ctrl-P has improved my speed to find files over my previous method of a file drawer in Vim like NERDTree. Lisa Sy January 29, 2014 Vim
ActiveRecord's where.not Make clunky negation queries in ActiveRecord easier to read. Gabe Berke-Williams January 24, 2014 Web Rails
Starting and stopping background services with Homebrew Don’t fiddle with launctl when there’s a better way. Gabe Berke-Williams January 21, 2014 OS X