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Refactoring: Replace Conditional with Polymorphism

How to work through existing code to add polymorphic behavior.
Joe Ferris
September 17, 2012
- Web
- Good Code
8 New Steps for Fixing Other People's Code

Way back in mid-2007, when Rails 1.2 was the new hotness and GitHub was still...
Alex Grant
September 15, 2012
- Web
- Git
- Ruby
- Open Source
- Testing
Hidden Gems: paul_revere

paul_revere is quick one-off announcements for Rails.
Mike Burns
September 14, 2012
Hidden gems: fake_braintree

The fake_braintree gem makes your life easier when testing code that charges...
Mike Burns
September 13, 2012
Danger, danger: High Voltage vulnerability

Version 1.2.0 of high_voltage is a security fix.
Mike Burns
September 10, 2012
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- Ruby
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- High Voltage
Hiring in Stockholm

Our operations in Sweden are coming online and we’re now looking to expand...
Chad Pytel
September 7, 2012
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- Stockholm
Testing Your Factories First

Have you ever added a seemingly innocent validation to a model, like so:...
Reade Harris
September 6, 2012
- Web
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- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
Introducing Bourbon Neat, a Sass-based responsive grid framework

Bourbon Neat—or Neat for short—is a lightweight, open source fluid grid...
Reda Lemeden
September 5, 2012
- Neat
- Bourbon
- Sass
- Open Source
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Towards a Retina Web: Follow-up

Last week I wrote a lengthy article over at Smashing Magazine covering...
Reda Lemeden
September 4, 2012
- Design
Using Writing Smells to Refactor Your Email

Improve your emails with these seven tricks!
Adarsh Pandit
August 30, 2012
- Language
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