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Fewer Rails Flash Messages

Clearance 0.12.0 was released last week with a continued focus on user and...
Dan Croak
July 5, 2011
- Web
- Rails
- Clearance
New Factory Bot Definition Syntax

factory_bot and factory_bot_rails release candidates were released this week...
Dan Croak
July 3, 2011
- News
- Web
- Ruby
- Testing
- Open Source
- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
github.com/thoughtbot cleanup

Like many of you, we’ve had a lot of code pass through our...
Dan Croak
June 14, 2011
- News
- Open Source
Copycopter: Introducing a Simpler Way to Edit Copy

Around four months ago we launched our service for managing copy text in web...
Joe Ferris
June 14, 2011
- News
- Web
- Copycopter
Redis Pub/Sub... How Does it Work?

Redis is a key/value store, but it’s jam-packed with a ton of other little...
Nick Quaranto
June 8, 2011
- Web
- Redis
AuthorizedController

We use a few Rails engines such as High Voltage and Clearance which allow you...
Dan Croak
June 7, 2011
- Web
- Rails
- Testing
- Clearance
- High Voltage
Radish: Dig Deep Into Redis

It’s no secret that we’re big fans of Redis here at thoughtbot. Redis has...
Nick Quaranto
May 31, 2011
- News
- Web
- Radish
Scala: A Better Java for Android

Stop writing Java for your Android apps! There are a slew of ways to build...
Mike Burns
May 25, 2011
- Android
- Scala
The Common Threads through AntiPatterns

For a few years, I’ve been developing content and giving talks on the theme...
Chad Pytel
May 24, 2011
- News
- Web
- Good Code
Redis For A Flat URL Hierarchy

In the URL structure of a new app, I want the routes to have a flat hierarchy...
Dan Croak
May 23, 2011
- Web
- Redis
- Rails
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