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Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

Written by thoughtbot, your expert partner for design and development.

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  1. intention

    Now conditional logic asks questions, which sucks, but its always still in...

    Jared Carroll
    July 16, 2007
    • Web
    • Rails
  2. The Legal Alternative

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    Eric Mill
    July 13, 2007
    • Fun
  3. what

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    Jared Carroll
    July 12, 2007
    • Web
    • Rails
  4. ints or strings

    Occasionally when developing an app you have to break out an enumeration. ...

    Jared Carroll
    July 10, 2007
    • Web
    • Rails
  5. a compromise

    On a sidebar in the latest edition of Agile Web Development I noticed...

    Jared Carroll
    July 9, 2007
    • Web
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  6. muck focking

    Most of the time in my tests I mock out all external resources, e.g. file...

    Jared Carroll
    July 6, 2007
    • Web
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  7. any? != ! empty?

    A common Ruby/Rails idiom used in views looks like the following: <% if...

    Jared Carroll
    July 5, 2007
    • Web
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  8. Yes, We Heard You

    I’m sure you’re aware of this already, but the dramatization of the...

    Eric Mill
    July 2, 2007
    • Fun
  9. no content for you!

    Conditional display of application components.

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    July 2, 2007
    • Web
    • Rails
  10. route it, route it, route it out loud

    How to test routes in Rails applications.

    Jared Carroll
    June 27, 2007
    • Web
    • Rails
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