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shoulda shoulda is version 3.0.0! Someone needed to cut it, and...
Mike Burns
February 24, 2012
- News
- Open Source
How To Use Arguments In a Rake Task

I came across this today. You can write Rake tasks that accept arguments,...
Chad Pytel
February 23, 2012
- Web
- Ruby
- Unix
Anonymizing User, Company, and Location Data Using Faker

Often during development it’s useful to have realistic data to get a sense of...
Adarsh Pandit
February 22, 2012
- Web
- Rails
Bracket Expansion

Let’s say you want to update capybara and capybara-webkit. You’d normally...
Gabe Berke-Williams
February 21, 2012
- Unix
This week in open source

copycopter_client Our little copycopter_client library, which...
Mike Burns
February 17, 2012
- News
- Open Source
The Rhythm Method

One of our goals for Trajectory is to provide a guided path to a better way...
February 17, 2012
- Trajectory
Derive #inject for a better understanding

Let’s talk about Enumerable#inject. It’s special to me. In other cultures...
Mike Burns
February 17, 2012
- Web
- Ruby
- Good Code
Run a Command Every Time You Change Directories in zsh

You can run a command every time you change directories in zsh with the chpwd...
Josh Clayton
February 16, 2012
- Unix
Wildcards In Rails Redirects

The captured wildcard in a Rails 3 route can be used in the redirect method:...
Dan Croak
February 15, 2012
- Web
- Rails
Trajectory Doesn't Have an Icebox

Mission Control: The icebox is a place where stories go to die. It’s...
February 15, 2012
- Trajectory
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