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This week in open source

A somewhat short update this week, in large part because I’m writing this...
Mike Burns
November 4, 2011
- News
- Open Source
Climbing Back up the Mountain

Today is the end of my fourth week as a Design Apprentice here at thoughtbot...
Steve Hickey
November 4, 2011
- Design
- Apprenticeship
The One-Method Silent Killer in Your Cucumber Suite

A regular expression bug in selector_for.
Jason Morrison
November 3, 2011
- Web
- Testing
- Ruby
- Good Code
How-To: Quick Rails Benchmarking

This February 6th we are launching a new workshop: Advanced Rails. The...
Harold Giménez
November 2, 2011
- Web
- Rails
- Performance
Design Patterns in the Wild: Null Object

I knocked out a pretty decent refactoring of some of the internals of Factory...
Josh Clayton
November 1, 2011
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- Ruby
- Testing
- Good Code
Appraisal: find out what your gems are worth

Since the introduction of bundler to the Ruby community, dealing with...
Joe Ferris
October 29, 2011
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- Appraisal
This week in open source

kumade The big changes to kumade this week: the rake task...
Mike Burns
October 28, 2011
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- Open Source
Copycopter now Supports Editing Multiple Locales

We have i18n support in CopyCopter now!
Jason Morrison
October 28, 2011
- News
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- Copycopter
Test Rake Tasks Like a BOSS

Testing Rake tasks is one of the most painful things I do as a Ruby...
Josh Clayton
October 26, 2011
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- Rails
- Ruby
- Testing
This week in open source

kumade This week our Heroku deployer, kumade, saw some...
Mike Burns
October 21, 2011
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