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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
Ruby Science: How to Eliminate Feature Envy and Comments

Since launching Ruby Science we’ve written and released five new chapters....
Harlow Ward
January 8, 2013
- Web
- Rails
- Ruby
- Good Code
- Books
Capybara Webkit: Now More Stable Than Ever

Especially ever! Matt Horan joined as a capybara-webkit author this fall,...
Joe Ferris
January 4, 2013
- Web
- Ruby
- Testing
- Capybara Webkit
Design Reading List and Cheatsheets for Developers

Free resources for developers looking to ramp up on design.
Kyle Fiedler
January 2, 2013
- Design
- Web
Refactor in a branch

This blog post is about refactoring, git, long-lived branches, and scope...
Mike Burns
December 18, 2012
- Git
- Good Code
Faster Tests: Sign In Through The Back Door

One way to make tests faster is to no load and submit the sign in form during...
Dan Croak
December 14, 2012
- Web
- Ruby
- Rails
- Open Source
- Clearance
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