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What is good code?

What are the fundamentals of good code?
Joe Ferris
April 25, 2012
- Playbook
- Good Code
FactoryBot 3.2: so awesome it needs to be released during RailsConf

FactoryBot 3.2 brings a slew of new features; while I’d considered breaking...
Josh Clayton
April 24, 2012
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- Factory Girl
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Turnip: A Tasty Cucumber Alternative?

We’ve used Cucumber heavily and successfully on client work, internal...
Harlow Ward
April 21, 2012
- Web
- Testing
This week in open source

factory_bot1 There’s a new version of factory_bot this week, as...
Gabe Berke-Williams
April 20, 2012
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Meet thoughtbot at Railsconf 2012

We’ve had an abnormally warm Winter and Spring in Boston this year, but...
Joe Ferris
April 20, 2012
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thoughtbot in Bangkok

Sawasdee krub! Jason Morrison is in Bangkok for a bit, and wants to talk...
Jason Morrison
April 18, 2012
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Remote Branch

Does your pair programmer maintain order, keeping the mean streets (ie....
Dan Croak
April 18, 2012
- Git
Time.now Is On My Side

I needed an open? method. First try: def open? opens_at < Time.now <...
Dan Croak
April 16, 2012
- Web
- Ruby
This Week in Open Source

clearance Gabe Berke-Williams (gabebw - that’s me!) cleaned up...
Gabe Berke-Williams
April 13, 2012
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- Open Source
Decorators Compared To Strategies, Composites, and Presenters

We’ve been paying closer attention lately to how we use design patterns in...
Dan Croak
April 12, 2012
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- Good Code
- Ruby
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