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Airbrake gem available

Hoptoad is now Airbrake and has it’s own ruby gem.
Harold Giménez
August 26, 2011
- News
- Web
- Airbrake
- Open Source
CoffeeScript: Spartan JavaScript

I’ve been writing some CoffeeScript lately, and it’s been fantastic. I wish I...
Nick Quaranto
August 22, 2011
This week in open source

Holy pull requests, Batman! capybara-webkit Lots of churn on the...
Mike Burns
August 19, 2011
- News
- Open Source
Nesting content_tag in Rails 3

Nesting content_tag in Rails 3 is counter-intuitive. This looks like it will...
Gabe Berke-Williams
August 19, 2011
- Web
- Rails
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
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