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Read between the lines

Don’t try to cram too much into a small space.
Joe Ferris
May 10, 2012
- Web
- Good Code
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
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