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Designer Tools

In addition to the basic development environment everyone at thoughtbot works...
Galen Frechette
January 26, 2012
- Design
Inject that Rails Configuration Dependency!

Setting up configuration settings in a Rails app has been fairly...
Josh Clayton
January 25, 2012
- Web
- Rails
- Testing
- Good Code
A users guide to the Trajectory redesign

We released a redesign to the Trajectory UI today. I want to explain the...
Chad Mazzola
January 25, 2012
- Trajectory
- Design
Apprentice.io Three Week Retrospective

Over the past three weeks I’ve begun my apprenticeship at thoughtbot. The...
Luke Griffiths
January 24, 2012
- Apprenticeship
Every Two Weeks

Our most popular gems—paperclip, capybara-webkit, factory_bot[^1], and...
Mike Burns
January 23, 2012
- News
- Open Source
Factory Bot 2.5 Gets Custom Constructors

Today marks a big day in the life of Factory Bot; you can now override the...
Josh Clayton
January 21, 2012
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- Web
- Rails
- Open Source
- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
This week in open source

shoulda-context Hey! shoulda-context has a maintainer! His name...
Mike Burns
January 20, 2012
- News
- Open Source
Factory Bot 2.4 Goes Meta

Factory Bot1 has been getting some hardcore internal refactorings over the...
Josh Clayton
January 13, 2012
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- Web
- Rails
- Performance
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- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
This week in open source

Deprecations We have officially stopped maintaining the...
Mike Burns
January 13, 2012
- News
- Open Source
Ridiculously simple Ajax uploads with FormData

Use the JavaScript FormData object to make Ajax based file uploads simple.
Pablo Brasero
January 10, 2012
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