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What everybody ought to know about Ruby on Rails 4.1

One of the most important things to know about Rails 4.1 is that even the beta version is stable enough for some companies to use it in production. For example,Basecamp began Rails 4.1 beta1. Other important features from the release notes include...
  • author photo By Starr Horne
  • #rails
  • Jan 7, 2014

Speed up Rails tests 10x by using PORO domain models

If you're like most Rails developers I know (including myself), you're probably used to writing "unit" tests in RSpec that load up the whole Rails framework before each test, which takes a few seconds to do, even if you're only testing one tiny thing...
  • author photo By Starr Horne
  • #rails
  • Dec 17, 2013

Getting Started with AngularJS and Rails 4

Getting started with AngularJS isn't hard. The documentation is some of the best out there and it's tutorials are simple enough. But things get tricky when you start combining technologies. If you're using CoffeeScript instead of straight JavaScript...

Zero downtime migrations: 500 million rows

Data makes things hard In this article I'm going to go over some of the tricks we use to handle large data migrations at Honeybadger. Check out the video for a quick overview. When you have a lot of data, your life gets harder. When you only have...
  • author photo By Starr Horne
  • #rails
  • Aug 6, 2013

The Inadequate Guide to Rails Security

Programming is awesome If you're like me, you got into this business because you love building awesome apps. Let's take a second to reflect on the good times. ...back to the real world. It sucks that you even have to worry about security. It...
  • author photo By Starr Horne
  • #rails
  • Mar 19, 2013
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