Use Factory Bot's build_stubbed for a Faster Test Suite Want to speed up your test suite? Reduce the number of objects persisted to... Josh Clayton May 9, 2012 Web Open Source Rails Testing Factory Girl Factory Bot
Constrain Yourself Most Rails developers have written apps where you have a marketing homepage... Josh Clayton May 8, 2012 Web Rails Open Source
Humans Present: Refactoring In the latest Humans Present, I sit down with Joe Ferris, our CTO, and we... Chad Pytel May 5, 2012 News Upcase Web Good Code
I Suck at Testing Testing is widespread in the Rails community, which is awesome. For most new... Jason Draper May 4, 2012 Web Testing
Come Correct with Inject and Collect Here’s a refactoring example for a simple Ruby math problem using the inject... Adarsh Pandit May 3, 2012 Web Ruby Good Code
How to Extract an Intention-Revealing Name Using Vim This method has a magic number: def wait_time @env[QUEUE_WAIT_HEADER].to_i... Joe Ferris May 2, 2012 Good Code Vim
Inbox Zero: GitHub Issues Edition We’ve noticed unpleasant trends in our most popular open source projects: ... Joe Ferris April 27, 2012 Open Source
Date and Time Formats for Pirates Need to display a date in your Rails app? First try: Time.now.strftime... Alex Berry April 27, 2012 Web Rails
Humans Present: An OSS Lifestyle I recently sat down with Mike Burns to discuss his operating system and... Chad Pytel April 26, 2012 News Upcase
What is good code? What are the fundamentals of good code? Joe Ferris April 25, 2012 Playbook Good Code