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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
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
- Web
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- Rails
- JavaScript
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