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5 Useful Tips For A Better Commit Message

You’re already writing decent commit messages. Let’s see if we can level you...
Caleb Hearth
April 26, 2013
- Git
Redis Partial Word Match -- You (Auto)complete Me

We can use partial word matching to rapidly search strings of text such as...
Harlow Ward
April 25, 2013
- Web
- Redis
Vim Splits - Move Faster and More Naturally

How to use splits in Vim.
Adarsh Pandit
April 18, 2013
- Vim
Online Presentation With thoughtbot and Heroku

Adarsh, Alex, and I are giving a free online presentation with Abe from...
Dan Croak
April 17, 2013
- News
- Web
Ruby Science Redesigned

We just pushed a new design for Ruby Science. The new design includes a new...
Joe Ferris
April 10, 2013
- News
- Web
- Books
Wrap Existing Text at 80 Characters in Vim

You have an existing block of text or code in vim. You want to re-format it...
Dan Croak
April 7, 2013
- Vim
Using rbenv to Manage Rubies and Gems

We recently switched from RVM to rbenv for managing Ruby versions. “Make...
Laila Winner
April 6, 2013
- Web
- Ruby
Using GDB to Inspect a Running Ruby Process

This job shouldn’t be taking this long! That’s not a great thing to have...
Jon Yurek
April 5, 2013
- Web
- Ruby
- Unix
Shoulda Matchers 2.0

Shoulda Matchers has been around for a long time. Unfortunately, it’s...
Jason Draper
April 3, 2013
- News
- Web
- Ruby
- Testing
- Shoulda
Introducing The Playbook Online Workshop

We’ve been offering a video version of The Playbook for some time, and now...
Chad Pytel
April 3, 2013
- News
- Playbook
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