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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. Types of Coupling

    Those of you coming from a Google search are about to be disappointed.

    Ben Orenstein
    May 15, 2012
    • Web
    • Ruby
    • Good Code
  2. Beware Homonyms

    When you name a class, choose a name that’s unlikely to refer more than one...

    Ben Orenstein
    May 13, 2012
    • Web
    • Good Code
  3. SHOULDA BEEN GONE

    We haven’t been taking pull requests on shoulda-matchers as much as we...

    Gabe Berke-Williams
    May 12, 2012
    • Web
    • Open Source
    • Shoulda
  4. Read between the lines

    Don’t try to cram too much into a small space.

    Joe Ferris
    May 10, 2012
    • Web
    • Good Code
  5. 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
  6. Constrain Yourself

    Most Rails developers have written apps where you have a marketing homepage...

    Josh Clayton
    May 8, 2012
    • Web
    • Rails
    • Open Source
  7. 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
  8. I Suck at Testing

    Testing is widespread in the Rails community, which is awesome. For most new...

    Jason Draper
    May 4, 2012
    • Web
    • Testing
  9. 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
  10. 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
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