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Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

Written by thoughtbot, your expert partner for design and development.

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  1. Expressing the problem

    Trade-offs between data and behavior.

    Mike Burns
    August 1, 2012
    • Web
    • Ruby
    • Good Code
  2. Mind-Bending Factories

    People often forget that FactoryBot1 is just using Ruby to instantiate...

    Josh Clayton
    July 31, 2012
    • Web
    • Ruby
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  3. Always Define respond_to_missing? When Overriding method_missing

    method_missing is still considered scary, but here’s something more scary:...

    Mike Burns
    July 30, 2012
    • Web
    • Ruby
  4. Playbook video, "Development", now unlocked!

    We’ve just unlocked the 4th video in the The Playbook: Video Edition:...

    Chad Pytel
    July 28, 2012
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  5. This Week in Open Source

    Factory Bot1 Version 3.6.0. of factory_botis hot and ready...

    Jason Draper
    July 27, 2012
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  6. The Hitchhiker's Guide to Riding a Mountain Lion

    Update: A better approach is detailed in Laptop Setup for an Awesome...

    Prem Sichanugrist
    July 25, 2012
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  7. Name It

    There will be Ruby in the middle of this blog post. But first, a tangent in...

    Mike Burns
    July 24, 2012
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  8. Clone Me Maybe

    Let’s say you’re on the GitHub page for rails/rails. Copying the URL from the...

    Gabe Berke-Williams
    July 21, 2012
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  9. Third Playbook video, "Design", now unlocked!

    It’s been two weeks since we launched The Playbook: Video Edition, and that...

    Chad Pytel
    July 20, 2012
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  10. Tell, Don't Ask

    And now, a friendly message from your local Tell, don’t ask Department. ...

    Ben Orenstein
    July 19, 2012
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