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In-person Hands-on Backbone.js on Rails workshop in Denver

We’re offering the next installment of our Hands-on Backbone.js on Rails...
Chad Pytel
August 1, 2013
- News
- Web
- JavaScript
The Art of Vim: Screencast on Text Objects

Hello Vim-warriors, we’ve added a new screencast to The Art of Vim about Text...
Michael Manor
July 31, 2013
- News
- Upcase
- Vim
How to Create Postgres Indexes Concurrently in ActiveRecord Migrations

By default, Postgres locks writes (but not reads) to a table while creating...
Dan Croak
July 30, 2013
- Web
- PostgreSQL
- Ruby
thoughtbot Philly

It’s with great pleasure that I, Kyle Fiedler, can announce a thoughtbot...
Kyle Fiedler
July 23, 2013
- News
- Philadelphia
tmux Copy & Paste on OS X: A Better Future

tmux recently updated to version 1.8, and with the update came a new command...
Chris Toomey
July 19, 2013
- tmux
One-on-one Mentors now included in thoughtbot’s Upcase

Today, we’re excited to announce a new addition to Prime: One-on-one...
Chad Pytel
July 18, 2013
- News
- Upcase
The Perils of Uniqueness Validations

Your Rails application probably makes use of uniqueness validations in...
Derek Prior
July 17, 2013
- Web
- Rails
- PostgreSQL
External Posts In Jekyll

If you contribute to more than one blog, you may want to have all of your...
Caleb Hearth
July 15, 2013
- Web
- Analytics
Chat Example App Using Server-Sent Events

Rails 4 can stream data to the browser with ActionController::Live using...
Mason Fischer
July 14, 2013
- Web
- Rails
- Redis
Taming Factory Bot List Creation

There are times in your tests when you need to create multiple instances of...
Derek Prior
July 13, 2013
- Web
- Ruby
- Testing
- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
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