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ActiveRecord, Caching, and the Single Responsibility Principle

I was working on a messaging system earlier this week and noticed a pretty...
Josh Clayton
August 19, 2011
- Web
- Rails
- Good Code
How To Back Up A Heroku Production Database To Staging

Backup a production Heroku Postgres database to a staging environment.
Dan Croak
August 18, 2011
- Web
- Heroku
- PostgreSQL
Vim: Execute Commands On Global Matches And Their Surrounding Lines

Mike just schooled us with some “vim by example.” His use case: I want to...
Dan Croak
August 17, 2011
- Vim
Custom Formats for DateTime

Date::DATE_FORMATS is quite helpful. It lets you do this:...
Gabe Berke-Williams
August 16, 2011
- Web
- Rails
Last Week In Open Source

Updates on our open source work this week.
Alex Godin
August 15, 2011
- News
- Open Source
Font Battle 2011

A recent straw poll of text editor fonts at thoughtbot found these results....
Nick Quaranto
August 15, 2011
- Design
- Typography
- Vim
- Unix
Paul Graham on Viaweb

We knew that e-commerce was really about graphic design, not transaction...
August 12, 2011
- Playbook
- Design
- Web
Never Fear, Traits are Here

I can’t count the number of times I’ve worked on Rails apps where I’m using...
Josh Clayton
August 12, 2011
- Web
- Ruby
- Open Source
- Testing
- Factory Bot
WIP it ♪♪♫♪ WIP it good

Our development process calls for a design component up front. Design is...
Harold Giménez
August 10, 2011
- Web
- Design
- Testing
2011 Rubyist's Guide To A Mac OS X Development Environment

Update: A better approach is detailed in Laptop Setup for an Awesome...
Dan Croak
August 9, 2011
- Web
- Ruby
- OS X
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