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Favorite books of 2022
18 January 2023
books
What's New in Ruby 3.2
10 January 2023
ruby
Favorite Books of 2021
28 January 2022
books
What's new in Ruby 3.1?
24 January 2022
ruby
Favorite books of 2020
29 January 2021
books
What's New in Ruby 3.0?
27 December 2020
ruby
Deploying a Phoenix App With Dokku
23 July 2020
elixir
phoenix
Defining gem dependencies in single file Ruby scripts
15 July 2020
ruby
Favorite Books of 2019
22 January 2020
books
What's new in Ruby 2.7
8 January 2020
ruby
Vim: Search and Replace Across All Project Files
25 May 2019
vim
Make Delegated Methods Private in Rails
7 February 2019
ruby
rails
Favorite Books of 2018
24 January 2019
books
What's new in Ruby 2.6
19 January 2019
ruby
Favorite Books of 2017
12 February 2018
books
What's New in Ruby 2.5?
27 December 2017
ruby
What's new in Rails 5.1?
4 March 2017
rails
Start Using Yarn With Rails Today
17 February 2017
rails
Setting Up Jenkins on Ubuntu 16.04 for Ruby on Rails CI
12 February 2017
rails
Creating and Applying Git Patch Files
12 February 2017
git
Favorite Books of 2016
9 February 2017
books
What's new in Ruby 2.4?
25 December 2016
ruby
Feature Flags in Phoenix Projects Using Laboratory
30 August 2016
elixir
phoenix
Bit Array Data Structure in Ruby
24 August 2016
ruby
Recurring Events in Rails
21 August 2016
rails
Rails: Automatically Set User Timezone During Signup
30 July 2016
rails
Rails: Handling Redirects in the Router
6 July 2016
rails
Writing and Publishing an Elixir Library
13 June 2016
elixir
Shell History in Elixir (IEx) and Erlang
9 June 2016
elixir
Notes from Open Source Saturday
10 May 2016
community
open-source
What's new in Rails 5?
4 January 2016
rails
Favorite Books of 2015
2 January 2016
books
Confident Ruby (Avdi Grimm)
20 December 2015
reviews
books
ruby
Getting started with Distributed Ruby (DRb)
14 December 2015
ruby
What's new in Ruby 2.3?
7 December 2015
ruby
Turbolinks and Google Analytics
27 November 2015
rails
Avoid time_ago_in_words in Rails
24 July 2015
rails
Set page titles and meta tags in Rails views
22 July 2015
rails
Getting started with Rails 5's ActionCable and websockets
17 July 2015
rails
Building a chat application using Elixir and Phoenix
11 July 2015
elixir
phoenix
Using Bower with Phoenix
4 July 2015
elixir
phoenix
User Authentication from Scratch in Elixir and Phoenix
30 June 2015
elixir
phoenix
Gradual engagement with Rails
6 June 2015
rails
Demystifying @tenderlove's homeopathic code optimizations
5 June 2015
ruby
Regular expression matching in Ruby with
String#[]
4 June 2015
ruby
Rails tests: Setting up Guard with Minitest for quicker feedback
3 June 2015
rails
High level Rails testing using Capybara and Minitest
2 June 2015
rails
Getting Started With Phoenix: Building a Scaffolded CRUD App
30 May 2015
elixir
phoenix
One Year With Vim
22 May 2015
vim
Don't use jquery-rails gem alongside rails-assets
21 May 2015
rails
Disable unsafe rake tasks in Rails production environment
18 May 2015
ruby
rails
Rake task to drop and reseed database in Rails
17 May 2015
rails
Bootstrap flash messages in Rails
14 May 2015
rails
Ruby on Rails Upgrade Guide
12 May 2015
rails
Working With MongoDB's Aggregation Pipelines in Ruby
11 April 2015
mongodb
ruby
rails
Tracing global variables in Ruby using trace_var
16 March 2015
ruby
Infinity in Ruby
3 March 2015
ruby
How I submitted my first patch to Rails (and you can too!)
23 February 2015
rails
open-source
Passing optional locals to Rails partials
16 February 2015
ruby
rails
How to use Ruby instead of sed and awk
12 February 2015
awk
ruby
sed
Fixing git merge conflicts from vim using vim-fugitive
9 February 2015
git
vim
The Boy Scout Rule
6 February 2015
refactoring
Making Vim Play Nice With ZSH and RVM
18 January 2015
vim
zsh
Favorite Books of 2014
4 January 2015
books
Enable Asset Compression After Upgrading to Rails 4
28 November 2014
rails
Flip Flop Operator in Ruby
21 November 2014
ruby
Google Inbox
19 November 2014
Better Asset Management in Rails Using Rails Assets
10 November 2014
rails
Tail Call Optimization in Ruby
9 November 2014
ruby
Haskell Quicksort
30 October 2014
haskell
functional-programming
Memoization in Ruby Using Metaprogramming
27 October 2014
ruby
Getting Started With Io
25 October 2014
io
When to Use Protected Methods in Ruby
23 October 2014
ruby
NTFS Support on OSX El Capitan
28 September 2014
osx
Presenters in Rails
25 September 2014
rails
Decorator Pattern in Ruby
24 September 2014
programming
ruby
Problem Resolving Long CNAME DNS Records
3 August 2014
programming
The Law of Demeter
27 July 2014
programming
Elementary OS (Luna)
23 June 2014
operating-systems
Complex has_many :through associations in Rails
16 April 2014
rails
Single quotes or double quotes?
4 February 2014
programming
Export to CSV in Rails
1 February 2014
rails
Defending Java
27 January 2014
programming
Favorite Books of 2013
23 January 2014
books
Hello, world!
8 August 2013
jekyll
What's This Programming Language?
2 June 2012
programming
Leave me alone when I'm coding
8 November 2011
programming
Writing Ruby Gems
17 June 2011
programming
Tabs vs. Spaces for Indentation
8 June 2011
programming
Review: Eloquent Ruby (Russ Olsen)
28 February 2011
books
reviews
ruby
How to Create a Google Chrome Extension
23 December 2010
programming
A Simple Todo App Using HTML5 and localstorage
4 December 2010
javascript
Set up Git on Windows
31 August 2010
git
Avoid Deeply Nested Routes in Rails
14 May 2010
rails
Friendly URLs in Rails using to_param
1 March 2010
rails