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Rescue StandardError, Not Exception

Sometimes our Ruby programs throw errors which we don’t have full control...
Jon Yurek
November 18, 2013
- Web
- Ruby
Faking Remote Services with Rack::Test

Using Rack middleware, we can reroute Rack::Test requests to fake remote...
Joe Ferris
November 16, 2013
- Web
- Testing
- Ruby
No Newline at End of File

Have you ever seen “No newline at end of file” in your git diffs? Us, too....
Mike Burns
November 15, 2013
- Unix
- Vim
- Git
Sass Variables

Variables in Sass can be seen as simple versions of symbols in Fireworks or...
Magnus Gyllenswärd
November 14, 2013
- Sass
- Color
- Design
FactoryBot for Seed Data?

Occasionally, somebody recommends or asks about using FactoryBot to generate...
Josh Clayton
November 13, 2013
- Web
- Ruby
- Testing
- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
Less Painful Heroku Deploys with Migrations

A Rails app running on Heroku must be restarted after migrating the database....
Joe Ferris
November 12, 2013
- Web
- Ruby
Honey, I shrunk the internet! - Content Compression via Rack::Deflater

Speed is key. The snappier the site, the more visitors like you. Speed is so...
Dan Collis-Puro
November 12, 2013
- Web
- Ruby
- Performance
Don’t Talk to (Just) Me

Having chatrooms for your company is great. They aid communication,...
Caleb Hearth
November 11, 2013
- Playbook
A Tour of Rails’ jQuery UJS

If you have a look at the default application.js file generated by Rails,...
Derek Prior
November 9, 2013
- Web
- Rails
- JavaScript
Announcing Bitters, a Dash of Sass Stylesheets for Bourbon and Neat

The designers here like to have simple stylesheets when starting a new...
Kyle Fiedler
November 8, 2013
- Bourbon
- Neat
- Sass
- News
- Design
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