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Sort Lines Alphabetically In Vim

Imagine you’re working in vim. You come across this code: gem 'clearance',...
Dan Croak
February 1, 2013
- Vim
Ruby Science: Avoid Divergent Change and Use Convention Over Configuration

We have two new chapters to announce this week in Ruby Science. If you’re...
Joe Ferris
January 29, 2013
- Web
- Ruby
- Rails
./bin/setup

In our protocol guide, we instruct new developers to set up an existing Rails...
Dan Croak
January 25, 2013
- Web
- Ruby
- Rails
Our Intro to Ruby on Rails Workshop is Now Available Online

I’m very pleased announce that our popular Intro to Ruby on Rails workshop is...
Chad Pytel
January 23, 2013
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Ruby Science: Improving Callbacks and Validations

We have three new chapters to announce this week in Ruby Science. If you’re...
Joe Ferris
January 18, 2013
- Web
- Ruby
- Rails
Opinionated Settings for App Development in Xcode

Setting up a new Xcode project is as simple as ⇧⌘N. Unless you want to do...
Gordon Fontenot
January 18, 2013
- iOS
Delivering All Email From Staging To A Group Email Address

All email from the staging environment of a Rails app can be intercepted and...
Dan Croak
January 18, 2013
- Web
- Ruby
- Rails
Process Jobs Inline when Running Acceptance Tests

Web apps often move long-running processes (such as delivering email) out of...
Josh Clayton
January 14, 2013
- Web
- Rails
- Testing
Improving Rails boot time with Zeus

Zeus improves Rails boot time. Saving seconds is most important when running...
Dan Croak
January 10, 2013
- Web
- Ruby
- Rails
- Testing
Foreman as Process Manager

Web application development/production parity can be improved by defining...
Dan Croak
January 9, 2013
- Unix
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