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Command Line Basecamp

I log a lot of friggin’ time on Basecamp. We all track our time incessantly...
Eric Mill
July 8, 2008
- Playbook
How I Learned to Stop Floating and Love the inline-block

Floating columns is a typical approach to defining page layout. The obvious...
Angelo Simeoni
July 2, 2008
- Design
- CSS
Screencast: Creating a Website in Widgetfinger

Its been just under 2 months since we first launched Widgetfinger, and during...
Chad Pytel
June 30, 2008
- News
- Web
- Widgetfinger
Squirrel Updates for Rails 2.1, now with Named Scopes!

As a little follow up to the gotchas, I updated Squirrel. Its pagination is...
Jon Yurek
June 25, 2008
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- Rails
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- Squirrel
I Will Miss You, Portland, Oregon

Basically all of thoughtbot went to Portland for RailsConf this year, and...
Eric Mill
June 20, 2008
- News
- Web
Gotchas When Upgrading to Rails 2.1

We’ve upgraded several Rails 2.0 application to Rails 2.1 now, and we’ve...
Chad Pytel
June 19, 2008
- Web
- Rails
Rules Made Up by You

Kelly Johnson worked at and was one of the driving forces behind Lockheed...
Matt Jankowski
June 10, 2008
- Playbook
Waiting For a Factory~~Girl~~Bot

Introducing a gem to create test data via factories.
Joe Ferris
June 6, 2008
- News
- Ruby
- Testing
- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
Testing Paperclip with Shoulda

Josh Susser had a bunch of great things to say about Shoulda in his RailsConf...
Tammer Saleh
June 3, 2008
- Web
- Ruby
- Testing
- Paperclip
- Shoulda
Slides from RailsConf

On Sunday at 1:50 I had the pleasure of giving my talk Advanced Active...
Chad Pytel
June 2, 2008
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Command Line Basecamp

How I Learned to Stop Floating and Love the inline-block

Screencast: Creating a Website in Widgetfinger

Squirrel Updates for Rails 2.1, now with Named Scopes!

I Will Miss You, Portland, Oregon

Gotchas When Upgrading to Rails 2.1

Rules Made Up by You

Waiting For a FactoryGirlBot

Testing Paperclip with Shoulda

Slides from RailsConf

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