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Another great article about creating a well behaved cli

tags: creating cli ruby

Ideas on how to write code to store configuration data from a ruby program.

tags: creating configuration ruby

How to write a great CLI and some good ruby tools for that.

tags: cli

Amazing list of resources for techies and hackers

tags: tools hacker directory

Mutation testing is a novel and ingesting way to think about testing. Very cool.

tags: mutation testing

Write what look like rich applications while writing very little code. Looks interesting but I’ve not tried it

tags: alan code application platform

Quite cool way to write a web page with markdown instead of with html!

tags: markdown webpage

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This looks like an amazing tool to surface a local server on the open web. I have to test it but it looks awesome

tags: web rails server

Really hard concurrency concepts.

tags: concurrency software engineering concepts

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An excellent review of the various issues you have to consider when deciding the put your rails app into production.

tags: rails production deploy

A collection of sage advice about software engineering

tags: best practice best practices advice software engineering

Really interesting advanced thoughts about rails ActiveRecord validations.

tags: models validation activerecord ruby

A whole bunch of free, open source, books.

tags: open source opensource free books

A tool to make better APIs

tags: api rest blueprint rails

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An interesting variation on how to represent a many to many relationship in rails.

tags: activerecord manytomany join rails

Getting mobiles to display notifications is a tricky business. Especially because there are several and each one is different. This gem tries to solve this.

tags: ruby push notification gem

There are various ways to find out if the library you need already exists. This is one of them, and it’s quite good.

tags: gems ruby libraries

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