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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
Code Review: Ruby and Rails Idioms

We often augment an existing Rails team or help build a Rails team on behalf...
Dan Croak
July 27, 2011
- Web
- Rails
Use Capybara On Any HTML Fragment Or Page

I was upgrading Gemcutter to Cucumber and Capybara 1.0 yesterday from...
Nick Quaranto
July 26, 2011
- Web
- Testing
- Ruby
- Rails
This week in open source

This week saw improvements to suspenders, fistface, factory_bot,...
Mike Burns
July 22, 2011
- News
- Open Source
Introducing Bourbon Sass Mixins

Bourbon is a library, and also a Ruby Gem, of sass mixins that are designed...
Phil LaPier
July 20, 2011
- Bourbon
- Sass
- Open Source
- Design
Business Problems and Technology People

When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. I’m sure this pattern...
Matt Jankowski
July 19, 2011
- Playbook
Backbone.js on Rails: a new dynamic ebook

We recently tweeted that this was the “summer of backbone.js”. 75% of our...
Chad Pytel
July 18, 2011
- News
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- Rails
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Hoptoad is Now Airbrake

We’ve renamed Hoptoad, it’s now called Airbrake.
Harold Giménez
July 15, 2011
- News
- Airbrake
Switching on an Attribute of Another Object

It is a bad idea to do a switch based on an attribute of another object. If...
July 8, 2011
- Web
- Ruby
- Good Code
High Ceremony Testing

You know what gets my hackles up? Blog posts like this one, where the author...
Jon Yurek
July 7, 2011
- Web
- Testing
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