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• rails
• ruby
• capybara
• devops
• vagrant
• javascript
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• active
• sql
• git
• activerecord
• ajax
• csv
• rspec
• optimization
• http
• api
• data structures
• callbacks
• java
• open source
• validations
• activemodel
• asynchronous
• sidekiq
• style
• ios
• debugging
• n00b
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• poltergeist
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• ssh
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• ubuntu
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• tricks
• console
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• datetime
• iframe
• dry
• ruby on rails
• jquery
• front end
• transitions
• minitest
• testing
• react native
• jest
• mocks

rails

• Merging and reverse merging in Ruby on Rails June 6, 2016
• Scopes vs class methods in Ruby on Rails February 19, 2016
• Migrating data in Rails using Rails migrations January 19, 2016
• No return value in rails console January 11, 2016
• Classy Ruby enumerating January 5, 2016
• Funky Ruby Class Method Syntax December 22, 2015
• Literally the coolest way to build an array December 15, 2015
• Familiarize quickly in new code with this trick December 8, 2015
• count vs size on ActiveRecord select queries November 24, 2015
• Object overload! Careful of instantiating objects in Ruby November 3, 2015
• Debugging Capybara Poltergeist tests in Rails October 27, 2015
• URL Encoding and Silly Safari October 13, 2015
• Asynchronous processing pitfalls and ActiveRecord locking September 28, 2015
• Turbocharged custom Rails / ActiveRecord validations September 11, 2015
• Indifferent Access in Ruby Hashes (with ActiveSupport) September 4, 2015
• String conditionals on ActiveRecord callbacks August 1, 2015
• ActiveRecord querying on Postgres array column July 8, 2015
• Unique objects from a three way join July 2, 2015
• Hack your Rspec setup using tags June 18, 2015
• Simplifying Rails views with pluralize May 28, 2015
• Beware reserved ENV names in Rails May 19, 2015
• Testing CSV exports/downloads in Ruby on Rails with Capybara May 6, 2015
• Easy peasy AJAX requests, couched in a Rails / Coffeescript environment April 9, 2015
• Don't delete your migration files! April 6, 2015
• Speed up your app's delegation skills using `:includes` April 5, 2015
• A true leader (in Rails) knows how to delegate April 3, 2015
• Format your Time the easy way with Rails locales March 29, 2015
• Capybara tests with Rails `disable_with` on forms March 28, 2015
• Rails' flash vs flash.now March 26, 2015
• Attach files and configure `delivery_method` in Rails ActionMailer March 24, 2015
• Get easy snippets in Rails views with `truncate` March 21, 2015
• present? vs any? in Rails March 16, 2015
• Discrimination in Rspec March 3, 2015
• Touch objects in a has_and_belongs_to_many association February 27, 2015
• Pitfalls when using Rails `render_to_string` January 17, 2015
• Very VERY basic Rails caching January 15, 2015
• A Primer on Time Zone parsing in Rails with ActiveSupport January 13, 2015
• One simple way to get data from a Rails view into a JavaScript file January 12, 2015
• Joining two join tables in Rails January 9, 2015
• Reload stale objects in finnicky Rails rspec tests January 8, 2015
• Adding error messages in custom Rails validate methods January 7, 2015

ruby

• Shut Those Pesky Warnings Off in Ruby Tests July 7, 2016
• Staying Class-y with Instance Variables in Ruby June 30, 2016
• Merging and reverse merging in Ruby on Rails June 6, 2016
• Simple IRB formatting trick February 23, 2016
• Scopes vs class methods in Ruby on Rails February 19, 2016
• Converting unix timestamps in Ruby February 8, 2016
• Arbitrary SQL ordering January 26, 2016
• Migrating data in Rails using Rails migrations January 19, 2016
• No return value in rails console January 11, 2016
• Classy Ruby enumerating January 5, 2016
• Funky Ruby Class Method Syntax December 22, 2015
• Literally the coolest way to build an array December 15, 2015
• Familiarize quickly in new code with this trick December 8, 2015
• count vs size on ActiveRecord select queries November 24, 2015
• Intro to SSH for relative newbies November 10, 2015
• Object overload! Careful of instantiating objects in Ruby November 3, 2015
• URL Encoding and Silly Safari October 13, 2015
• Refactoring using guard clauses October 7, 2015
• Asynchronous processing pitfalls and ActiveRecord locking September 28, 2015
• Turbocharged custom Rails / ActiveRecord validations September 11, 2015
• More readable for ActiveRecord statements using Placeholder Conditions September 8, 2015
• Indifferent Access in Ruby Hashes (with ActiveSupport) September 4, 2015
• More readable value change testing in rspec September 1, 2015
• Quicker and Easier headers with HTTParty August 28, 2015
• String conditionals on ActiveRecord callbacks August 1, 2015
• Check if array contains any element of another array July 23, 2015
• Quick and easy HTTP headers with HTTParty July 17, 2015
• ActiveRecord querying on Postgres array column July 8, 2015
• Unique objects from a three way join July 2, 2015
• Hack your Rspec setup using tags June 18, 2015
• Quick and dirty nil and empty string handling in Ruby June 2, 2015
• Simplifying Rails views with pluralize May 28, 2015
• Enumerating in Ruby like a BOSS May 26, 2015
• Beware reserved ENV names in Rails May 19, 2015
• Testing CSV exports/downloads in Ruby on Rails with Capybara May 6, 2015
• Easy peasy AJAX requests, couched in a Rails / Coffeescript environment April 9, 2015
• Don't delete your migration files! April 6, 2015
• Speed up your app's delegation skills using `:includes` April 5, 2015
• A true leader (in Rails) knows how to delegate April 3, 2015
• Format your Time the easy way with Rails locales March 29, 2015
• Capybara tests with Rails `disable_with` on forms March 28, 2015
• Rails' flash vs flash.now March 26, 2015
• Attach files and configure `delivery_method` in Rails ActionMailer March 24, 2015
• Caveat to omitting `self` in Model method calls March 23, 2015
• Get easy snippets in Rails views with `truncate` March 21, 2015
• Using `self` in Model methods March 19, 2015
• Find multiple records with ActiveRecord's Model.find March 18, 2015
• present? vs any? in Rails March 16, 2015
• Discrimination in Rspec March 3, 2015
• Touch objects in a has_and_belongs_to_many association February 27, 2015
• Handling nil values with #to_s February 25, 2015
• Enumerate in reverse with true indexes in Ruby February 12, 2015
• Make an array of sequential numbers in Ruby February 2, 2015
• How to make a ruby executable file January 28, 2015
• Speed up your ActiveRecord queries with Model.select January 27, 2015
• Simple bundler trick to see what gems and versions are installed January 26, 2015
• Pitfalls when using Rails `render_to_string` January 17, 2015
• 'Publishing' an object and associations using serialized fields January 16, 2015
• Very VERY basic Rails caching January 15, 2015
• A Primer on Time Zone parsing in Rails with ActiveSupport January 13, 2015
• One simple way to get data from a Rails view into a JavaScript file January 12, 2015
• Joining two join tables in Rails January 9, 2015
• Reload stale objects in finnicky Rails rspec tests January 8, 2015
• Adding error messages in custom Rails validate methods January 7, 2015

capybara

• Debugging Capybara Poltergeist tests in Rails October 27, 2015
• Take control of your rspec test suite, Part 1 June 24, 2015
• Hack your Rspec setup using tags June 18, 2015
• Testing CSV exports/downloads in Ruby on Rails with Capybara May 6, 2015
• Capybara tests with Rails `disable_with` on forms March 28, 2015
• Reload stale objects in finnicky Rails rspec tests January 8, 2015

devops

• Intro to SSH for relative newbies November 10, 2015
• Very VERY basic Vagrant commands for a n00b January 10, 2015

vagrant

• Very VERY basic Vagrant commands for a n00b January 10, 2015

javascript

• Mocking with Jest and React Native July 23, 2018
• Parents, Children and other Familial Functions in jQuery February 25, 2016
• Fun with iframes and JavaScript February 11, 2016
• Easy peasy AJAX requests, couched in a Rails / Coffeescript environment April 9, 2015
• Simple JavaScript tricks for address bar parsing April 8, 2015
• One simple way to get data from a Rails view into a JavaScript file January 12, 2015
• Handling datetime in JavaScript (or more accurately, CoffeeScript) January 11, 2015

bash

• A Brief History of Bashing Yourself June 2, 2016
• Bash yourself in the background! December 29, 2015
• Bash yourself on a schedule! December 1, 2015
• Bash yourself multiple times March 20, 2015
• How to make a ruby executable file January 28, 2015

executable

• How to make a ruby executable file January 28, 2015

active

• Find multiple records with ActiveRecord's Model.find March 18, 2015

sql

• Arbitrary SQL ordering January 26, 2016
• Object overload! Careful of instantiating objects in Ruby November 3, 2015
• Asynchronous processing pitfalls and ActiveRecord locking September 28, 2015
• ActiveRecord querying on Postgres array column July 8, 2015
• Speed up your app's delegation skills using `:includes` April 5, 2015
• Find multiple records with ActiveRecord's Model.find March 18, 2015

git

• Git stash is like a little mini save state June 11, 2015
• Undo your last git commit March 22, 2015

activerecord

• Scopes vs class methods in Ruby on Rails February 19, 2016
• Migrating data in Rails using Rails migrations January 19, 2016
• count vs size on ActiveRecord select queries November 24, 2015
• Object overload! Careful of instantiating objects in Ruby November 3, 2015
• Asynchronous processing pitfalls and ActiveRecord locking September 28, 2015
• Turbocharged custom Rails / ActiveRecord validations September 11, 2015
• More readable for ActiveRecord statements using Placeholder Conditions September 8, 2015
• String conditionals on ActiveRecord callbacks August 1, 2015
• ActiveRecord querying on Postgres array column July 8, 2015
• Unique objects from a three way join July 2, 2015
• Speed up your app's delegation skills using `:includes` April 5, 2015

ajax

• Easy peasy AJAX requests, couched in a Rails / Coffeescript environment April 9, 2015

csv

• Testing CSV exports/downloads in Ruby on Rails with Capybara May 6, 2015

rspec

• Shut Those Pesky Warnings Off in Ruby Tests July 7, 2016
• Rspec tricks for DRY mocked specs February 16, 2016
• Debugging Capybara Poltergeist tests in Rails October 27, 2015
• More readable value change testing in rspec September 1, 2015
• Take control of your rspec test suite, Part 1 June 24, 2015
• Hack your Rspec setup using tags June 18, 2015

optimization

• Check if array contains any element of another array July 23, 2015
• Take control of your rspec test suite, Part 1 June 24, 2015

http

• Quicker and Easier headers with HTTParty August 28, 2015
• Quick and easy HTTP headers with HTTParty July 17, 2015

api

• Converting unix timestamps in Ruby February 8, 2016
• URL Encoding and Silly Safari October 13, 2015
• Quick and easy HTTP headers with HTTParty July 17, 2015

data structures

• Indifferent Access in Ruby Hashes (with ActiveSupport) September 4, 2015
• Check if array contains any element of another array July 23, 2015

callbacks

• Turbocharged custom Rails / ActiveRecord validations September 11, 2015
• String conditionals on ActiveRecord callbacks August 1, 2015

java

• Hidden pitfalls of comparing strings in Java August 27, 2015

open source

• Quicker and Easier headers with HTTParty August 28, 2015

validations

• URL Encoding and Silly Safari October 13, 2015
• Turbocharged custom Rails / ActiveRecord validations September 11, 2015

activemodel

• Turbocharged custom Rails / ActiveRecord validations September 11, 2015

asynchronous

• Asynchronous processing pitfalls and ActiveRecord locking September 28, 2015

sidekiq

• Asynchronous processing pitfalls and ActiveRecord locking September 28, 2015

style

• Refactoring using guard clauses October 7, 2015

ios

• URL Encoding and Silly Safari October 13, 2015

debugging

• Familiarize quickly in new code with this trick December 8, 2015
• count vs size on ActiveRecord select queries November 24, 2015
• Object overload! Careful of instantiating objects in Ruby November 3, 2015
• Device Emulators all up in your browser October 20, 2015

n00b

• Migrating data in Rails using Rails migrations January 19, 2016
• Intro to SSH for relative newbies November 10, 2015
• Device Emulators all up in your browser October 20, 2015

responsive design

• Don't wrap specific CSS elements February 2, 2016
• Device Emulators all up in your browser October 20, 2015

poltergeist

• Debugging Capybara Poltergeist tests in Rails October 27, 2015

memory

• Arbitrary SQL ordering January 26, 2016
• Object overload! Careful of instantiating objects in Ruby November 3, 2015

ssh

• Intro to SSH for relative newbies November 10, 2015

deploy

• Migrating data in Rails using Rails migrations January 19, 2016
• Intro to SSH for relative newbies November 10, 2015

capistrano

• Intro to SSH for relative newbies November 10, 2015

ubuntu

• Bash yourself in the background! December 29, 2015
• Ctrl-Alt-Del for Linux November 17, 2015

linux

• Ctrl-Alt-Del for Linux November 17, 2015

cron

• Bash yourself on a schedule! December 1, 2015

metaprogramming

• Classy Ruby enumerating January 5, 2016
• Funky Ruby Class Method Syntax December 22, 2015

screen

• Bash yourself in the background! December 29, 2015

tricks

• Simple IRB formatting trick February 23, 2016
• Don't wrap specific CSS elements February 2, 2016
• No return value in rails console January 11, 2016

console

• No return value in rails console January 11, 2016

command line

• A Brief History of Bashing Yourself June 2, 2016
• Simple IRB formatting trick February 23, 2016
• No return value in rails console January 11, 2016

css

• Easy CSS Transitions For Business and Pleasure February 29, 2016
• Don't wrap specific CSS elements February 2, 2016

datetime

• Converting unix timestamps in Ruby February 8, 2016

iframe

• Fun with iframes and JavaScript February 11, 2016

dry

• Rspec tricks for DRY mocked specs February 16, 2016

ruby on rails

• Scopes vs class methods in Ruby on Rails February 19, 2016

jquery

• Parents, Children and other Familial Functions in jQuery February 25, 2016

front end

• Easy CSS Transitions For Business and Pleasure February 29, 2016
• Parents, Children and other Familial Functions in jQuery February 25, 2016

transitions

• Easy CSS Transitions For Business and Pleasure February 29, 2016

minitest

• Shut Those Pesky Warnings Off in Ruby Tests July 7, 2016

testing

• Mocking with Jest and React Native July 23, 2018
• Shut Those Pesky Warnings Off in Ruby Tests July 7, 2016

react native

• Mocking with Jest and React Native July 23, 2018

jest

• Mocking with Jest and React Native July 23, 2018

mocks

• Mocking with Jest and React Native July 23, 2018