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The Playbook: Video Edition

Some of our workshop content is now on video.
Chad Pytel
July 6, 2012
- News
- Playbook
git checkout and see

If you use git, you’re running git checkout $BRANCH all the time. Everyone...
Gabe Berke-Williams
July 3, 2012
- Git
thoughtbot Open House

As of this week, we’ve officially been in our new office for one year! To...
Seana Quental
June 29, 2012
- News
- Boston
Writing Better Cucumber Scenarios; or, Why We're Deprecating FactoryBot's Cucumber Steps

For almost three years now, FactoryBot1 has provided developers using...
Josh Clayton
June 25, 2012
- Web
- Ruby
- Testing
- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
How Much Should I Refactor?

The Rails community has been abuzz with object-oriented programming, SOLID...
Joe Ferris
June 25, 2012
- Web
- Good Code
Delightful Design

There’s a feeling you get when you go to a particularly delightful website,...
Edward Loveall
June 25, 2012
- Design
Backbone.js on Rails hits 1.0

Almost 1 year ago, on July 18, 2011, we announced our book, Backbone.js on...
Chad Pytel
June 23, 2012
- News
- Web
- JavaScript
- Books
Olympic Medal Rivalry

Answering questions using the medal results of the 2012 Olympic Games.
Makoto Inoue
June 22, 2012
- Fun
- Data
- New Bamboo
- Web
Describe the User's Perspective: DDD, acceptance testing, and you

Learn about the user first.
Mike Burns
June 22, 2012
- Design
- Playbook
- Testing
Style Sheet Swag: Architecting Your Application's Styles

Aside from applying that killer layout and visual design to your project,...
Galen Frechette
June 14, 2012
- Sass
- CSS
- Design
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