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ActiveRecord's where.not and nil

ActiveRecord’s where.not has some potentially surprising behavior when it comes to null values.
Stephen Hanson
June 22, 2018
- Rails
- Web
Updating Our Technical Interview

When our technical interview began to feel “off”, we identified pain points and crafted a new experience, resulting in less bias, reduced variance, and a more accurate representation of day-to-day work.
Josh Clayton
May 11, 2018
- Web
- Rails
- Hiring
- Interviews
Tell Me When It Closes — Improved!

Tell Me When It Closes just got a massive email makeover.
Chris Toomey
March 26, 2018
- News
- Rails
- Tools
Using `yield_self` for composable ActiveRecord relations

On the code-changing magic of yield_self.
Derek Prior
March 13, 2018
- Rails
- Ruby
- Web
Setting up CircleCI 2.0 for Rails

CircleCI 2.0 brings some great new features, but it’s not so straightforward to get started with. Let’s walk through how to get going.
Nick Charlton
January 3, 2018
- Rails
- CI
- CircleCI
Host your blog under /blog on your www domain with Fastly

You’re here for the link juice, amirite?
Ian Zabel
November 6, 2017
- Blog
- SEO
- Fastly
- CDN
- Proxy
- Rails
- Marketing
factory_bot

factory_girl is becoming factory_bot.
Avielle Wolfe and Josh Clayton
October 24, 2017
- News
- Web
- Rails
- Testing
- RSpec
- Ruby
- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
New Upcase Trail: Intermediate Rails 5

In this course we’ll take a dive deep into Ruby on Rails 5 with a series of tutorials to help you move beyond the basics and start understanding and using more advanced Ruby. Together, we will build a Twitter-like application from start to finish.
Jason Ramirez
October 12, 2017
Elm and Rails Sitting in a Tree

I-N-T-E-G-R-A-T-I-N-G: Webpacker makes using Elm in your Rails app pain-free.
Tom Wey and Josh Clayton
October 9, 2017
- Rails
- Elm
Access Ruby Hash Values with Fallbacks for Missing Data

Find out different ways to access hash values in Ruby and save the dinosaurs at the same time.
Rob Whittaker
September 25, 2017
- Code
- Rails
- Ruby
- Web
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