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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
The Product Design Sprint

A Product Design Sprint (invented by Google Ventures) is a 5-phase exercise...
Galen Frechette
November 6, 2013
- Design
- Playbook
Catching Invalid JSON Parse Errors with Rack Middleware

There is a world where developers need never worry about poorly formatted...
Dan Collis-Puro
November 4, 2013
- Web
- Rails
How To Efficiently Display Large Amounts of Data on iOS Maps

This tutorial will demonstrate how to handle and display thousands of points...
Theodore Calmes
November 1, 2013
- Design
- iOS
- Data
A New Front-End Development Workshop from thoughtbot

We’re excited to announce our new online workshop, Best Practices for...
Lydia Damon
November 1, 2013
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- Web
- Design
- Upcase
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