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2009

July

• Rails, Internationalization, and Tú

June

• How (& Why) to Run Autotest on your Mac

• Unfuddle User Feedback

• Developer Day DC, Done!

May

• Reusing Contexts in Shoulda with Context Macros

• Rack Support in Rails: Why It Matters

• Provisional and Repo Man: Automated Bootstrapping

• JSConf 2009 Recap: Javascript at the Edge

• RailsConf 2009 Wrapup

• Backup your Database in Git

• SimplestAuth: Gem-ified, with DataMapper Support

• Updated Garb: Even Easier Access to the Google Analytics API

April

• Shoulda Macros with Blocks

• Introducing Garb: Access the Google Analytics Data Export API with Ruby

• Progressive Caching In-Depth

• Look Out! It’s Developer Day in DC!

• Out, Damned Tabs

• Pain-Free Pretty URLs in Rails

• Stop Pissing Off Your Designers

March

• Conditionally Customize Your URLs in Rails

• Practical Sorcery with irb

• Adding Gitjour to Your Hack Night Toolset

• Developer Day in Durham Is a Wrap

• User Intention Tracking in Google Analytics: The Javascript

• Join Us at Developer Day!

February

• Test Drive mod_rewrite Rules With Test::Unit

• Rails Named Routes: Path Vs. URL

• Rails Nested has_many :through With SQL Views

• Stop Sphinx and MySQL from Truncating Grouped Data

• Simple Rails/Ruby Application Configuration

• Sessions on PCs and Macs

• Updates to SimplestAuth

January

• I Love Me Some Skitch!

• Rails Sessions Not Working with Safari? A Solution …

• Getting (And Staying) Motivated to Code

• Simple Features that Set Emacs Apart

• IE, jQuery, Rails, and HTTP, oh my!

• Facebook Connect UX Challenges

• The Making of VigeTurf - Development

• A Gaggle Of Git Tips

• Rails Authentication Plugin: simplest_auth

• Radarb: A Ruby Gem That Makes Using the Outside.in API Simple

• Multi-line Memoization

2008

December

• Scratching An Itch: The Rails Model Generator With Factory Girl Support

November

• Simple jQuery Solution to Provide Default Values for Page Elements

• OAuth By Example

October

• Migrating From FileColumn To Paperclip

• Fast, Cheap, and Good: My Rails Rumble Experience

September

• Creating Resourceful Plugins

• Scala: The Adventure Begins!

• Protip: TimeWithZone, All The Time

• Railsconf Europe Wrapup

• Unpublished Keyboard Shortcuts on Mac OS X

August

• Protip: Use Your Factories in Development

• Introducing ActsAsMarkup: A Markdown, Textile, Wikitext, and RDoc Plugin for ActiveRecord

• Named Scope Caching

• Second Ruby Hack Night: Aug 13th

July

• Introducing: EmailLabsClient

• Hoptoad: in Brief

• Drizzle and Ruby on Rails

• Introducing: XHTML Dev

• Linux Distributions For Rails Hosting: Viget’s First Annual(?) Shakedown

• A Confusing Rubyism

• Helper Testing Independence

June

• Helpers vs. Partials - A Performance Question

• Announcing the ActionButton Plugin

• First Hack Night a Success!

• Testing Helpers In Rails 2.1

• Inheritance is Unlikely

• Testing for HTML Tags in Rails Plugins

May

• RubyInline in Shared Rails Environments

• Make Apple’s Addressbook Pull from Exchange

• Announcing spect, a helping library for Test::Unit

• Ruby Hack Night

• Problems With Attachment_fu and a Dedicated Image Model

• From TextMate to ExpressionEngine

April

• Building an Environment From Scratch With Capistrano 2

• Right Way/Wrong Way: Closed Betas

• I Have a Pull Request on GitHub, Now What?

• Maintaining Lookup Data in Your Rails Application

• Passenger: Let It Ride?

• Effectively Using Git With Subversion

• Installing Sphinx on OS X Leopard

• Why Google App Engine Matters

• Open Source, Take Two.

• OpenID Authentication Plugin for Rails Now Supports OpenID 2.0

• Git with remotes and SVN

March

• Creating Gems with Mr Bones

• cURL and Your Rails 2 App

• Rails 2 and test/spec

• When Cookies Fail

• No Query String? No Problem.

• Migration Consolidation for Fun and Profit

• Using polymorphic_url to Generate URLs From Unknown Models

• Tools of the Trade: vl_cruise_control

• GitHub Announces Pricing Plans

February

• Getting To Know Git

• The Problem with Scaffolding

January

• Recap: Refresh the Triangle January Meeting

• Sandstone: A Drop-In CMS for Existing Rails Applications

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