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  • April 10, 2020

    Testing Ruby Gems with GitHub Actions

    Let's walk through how you can use GitHub Actions to test a Ruby gem, or any other Library, against an array of dependencies.

  • March 13, 2018

    Using `yield_self` for composable ActiveRecord relations

    On the code-changing magic of `yield_self`.

  • June 16, 2017

    Headless Capybara Feature Specs with Chrome

    I've been experimenting with running feature specs using Chrome’s new headless mode. How do we set it up, and how does it compare to Capybara-WebKit?

  • February 15, 2017

    Validation, Database Constraint, or Both?

    What happens when we stop using validations for data integrity and instead use them for user interface?

  • October 24, 2016

    Is Your Site Leaking Password Reset Links?

    Emailed password reset links are a common part of web applications. Is your site leaking these confidential links to third party sites?

  • August 26, 2016

    My Life with NeoVim

    Frustrations with Vim lead me briefly to Emacs and ultimately to experiment with NeoVim.

  • January 11, 2016

    Announcing Scenic - Versioned Database Views for Rails

    Database views can improve the performance, composability, and readability of your rails application and Scenic is here to help.

  • November 5, 2015

    One Year Inside The Bike Shed

    The Bike Shed isn’t a show about Rails, JavaScript or any particular language or library. At its best, the Bike Shed is a show about the problems we face as developers and interesting ways we tackle them. On our first anniversary, I thought it would be interesting to look at the evolution and future of the show.

  • November 4, 2015

    A Client Project, Two Years Later

    I recently had an opportunity to catch up with the developer that took over the first Rails project I worked on for thoughtbot. Here's our discussion on how our choices made early on in the project are suiting them two years later.

  • December 2, 2014

    Have Some (Referential) Integrity with Foreign Keys

    What is referential integrity and why is it important to your Rails apps?

  • November 2, 2014

    The Bike Shed

    The Bike Shed, hosted by myself and Sean Griffin, joins the thoughtbot podcast family.

  • March 24, 2014

    My Friend Bobby

    Everyone has the same Bobby Mac story.

  • November 9, 2013

    A Tour of Rails’ jQuery UJS

    What is that //= require jquery_ujs line doing in your application.js file? Let's dive in and find out!

  • October 26, 2013

    Better Tests Through Internationalization

    Clean up your views and write more resilient tests with internationalization.

  • August 16, 2013

    Implementing Multi-Table Full Text Search with Postgres in Rails

    Learn how to use Postgres to build full text search that spans multiple models in your Rails application.

  • July 17, 2013

    The Perils of Uniqueness Validations

    Uniqueness validations provide a good user experience in the way of friendly error messages, but they do not prevent duplicate data in any production environment with more than one thread or process.

  • July 13, 2013

    Taming Factory Girl List Creation

    If you're not careful, FactoryGirl's create_list can easily create well more records than needed for your tests.

  • June 15, 2013

    Seamlessly Navigate Vim and tmux Splits

    Jump between Vim and tmux splits with a single key combination.

  • August 8, 2012

    Re-enabling Password Pasting

    Some misguided web developers have decided pasting passwords should be prohibited. If you want to paste your secure password into one of these annoying web forms, then you've come to the right place.

  • July 30, 2012

    Using rbenv with tmuxinator

    Tmuxinator allows for easy configuration of tmux sessions, but it has not yet been updated for use with rbenv. A simple shell function can serve as to bridge the divide.

  • January 11, 2012

    Gemify Assets for Rails

    The asset pipeline allows us to depend on versioned external assets via RubyGems, but what happens if the asset you want to use isn't available as a Gem? Let's create an asset gem together!

  • December 30, 2011

    Simple Navigation in Rails

    The Simple Navigation gem makes advanced, multi-level navigation schemes simple to implement while maintaining a clear separation of concerns.

  • December 22, 2011

    Upgrading Vim on OS X

    The version of Vim that ships with Mac OS X is outdated. There are several rather simple options for updating Vim.

  • December 13, 2011

    Embracing Promiscuous Gemfiles

    By removing version constraints from your Gemfile until you have a good reason to add one, the bundle is simple to update and yet still provides equivalent version safety.

  • August 11, 2011

    Using PeepOpen With RubyMine

    Replace RubyMine's keyboard-based file navigation with PeepOpen.

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Prioritized.net is written by Derek Prior. I'm a Principal Engineering Manager at GitHub where I work on efforts to build and strengthen communities. When I'm not working, I can be found coaching youth sports, riding my bike, or taking recreational sports way too seriously. I do not know how to hockey stop.