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May 26, 2017
Productivity Engineering
Apr 7, 2017
Deploy Env Vs Rails Env
Mar 28, 2017
How Strava Merges Code
Apr 1, 2013
Overwriting Console Output Using Curses in Ruby
Dec 16, 2012
Context Driven Refactoring
Sep 26, 2012
Actually Always Refactoring
Jun 21, 2012
Fixtures and Factories
May 3, 2012
Benchmark Your Bundle
Apr 16, 2012
Overwriting Console Output in Ruby
Mar 22, 2012
Respect the Active Record
Mar 8, 2012
Reducing Metadata Queries in Resque
Feb 27, 2012
Understanding The Law of Demeter
Feb 21, 2012
From WordPress to GitHub Pages
Feb 6, 2012
The Ruby Global Interpreter Lock
Jan 12, 2012
A Simple Rails Boot Time Improvement
Jan 4, 2012
The & Operator in Ruby
Dec 29, 2011
Courteous Meta-Programming in Ruby
Nov 30, 2011
Object Oriented Ruby and Rails in the Complex World of Gems
Oct 31, 2011
Ruby 1.9.3-p0 Released
Oct 24, 2011
Using Rails Observers to write Faster Tests and Simpler Models
Sep 21, 2011
Dynamic Rescue Clause in Ruby
Sep 13, 2011
Sham 1.0.0 Released!
Aug 17, 2011
after_create bug in Rails 3
Jun 30, 2011
Avoiding Nested Callbacks in JavaScript
Jun 21, 2011
A Faster YARD Doc Server with Guard-Yard
Jun 14, 2011
How Javascript Loading Works - DOMContentLoaded and OnLoad
May 27, 2011
Recap and Thoughts on the Facebook Deploy and Push Process
May 18, 2011
Spork, RSpec, Sham and Caching Classes
May 12, 2011
ActiveRecord 3.1 - Mass-Assignment Roles
May 9, 2011
Spork Testing Tip - Caching Classes
Mar 23, 2011
Proper Git Commit Messages and an Elegant Git History
Mar 8, 2011
Rails 3 Patch: Encoding Bug while Action Caching with MemCacheStore
Feb 25, 2011
Hoptoad Error Tracking in Ruby on Rails
Feb 19, 2011
Scopes in Rails 3
Jan 17, 2011
Ruby Autoloading Explained
Jan 3, 2011
Using Custom Error Messages for Cleaner Code
Dec 18, 2010
A Simple Ruby Script to Gracefully Terminate System Processes
Dec 6, 2010
Sham - Lightweight Factories for Ruby on Rails Testing
Nov 22, 2010
To be or not to be... RESTful - Ruby on Rails Best Practices
Nov 21, 2010
FULLTEXT Index and SPATIAL Index - MySQL Compatible Rake Tasks
Nov 19, 2010
Serving Static Files with Passenger and Nginx