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This week in open source

Another week of great pull requests to our open source projects. ...
Mike Burns
August 5, 2011
- News
- Open Source
How to fix `rm -f .git/index`

Ever gotten this message? fatal: Unable to create...
Gabe Berke-Williams
August 4, 2011
- Git
2.5 Ways to Execute a Shell Command

I always get confused by the difference between %x{}, backticks, and system...
Gabe Berke-Williams
August 3, 2011
- Web
- Ruby
Multiline strings in Capybara

When checking for a multiline string in Capybara, you need to use page.text...
Gabe Berke-Williams
August 2, 2011
- Web
- Testing
Medium Robots Learning From Other Medium Robots

Our three Apprentices, Prem Sichanugrist, Gabe Berke-Williams, and Alex Godin...
Chad Pytel
August 2, 2011
- News
Lessons from a thoughtbot Apprentice

Hi, my name is Gabe Berke-Williams. I’m going to kick off this apprentice...
Gabe Berke-Williams
August 2, 2011
- Git
7 Minute Ab: Impatient Man's Load Tests For A Heroku App

A quick way to do a lightweight load test on Heroku.
Dan Croak
August 2, 2011
- Web
- Heroku
- Performance
- Testing
This Week in Open Source

This week saw updates to our dotfiles, suspenders, capybara-webkit, factory...
Mike Burns
July 29, 2011
- News
- Open Source
From the Desk of a thoughtbot Apprentice

First, let me introduce myself, my name is Alex and I’m an apprentice here...
Alex Godin
July 29, 2011
- Playbook
- Apprenticeship
If You Gaze Into nil, nil Gazes Also Into You

Every developer runs into the dreaded nil object error: NoMethodError in...
Joe Ferris
July 28, 2011
- Web
- Ruby
- Good Code
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