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Taking Advantage of the Polyglot Lifestyle 26 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
If you haven’t heard yet or you’ve simply been under a rock for the past several months, there is a new functional language getting quite a bit of attention. Elixir is the brainchild of José Valim and...
Ruby5 Roundup - Episode 397 23 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
Fellow Rocketeer Taylor Mock and I teamed up for another episode of the Ruby5 podcast. Here is a quick roundup of what’s new this week. http://ruby5.envylabs.com/episodes/433-episode-397-august-23rd-...
Deferring constraints in PostgreSQL 22 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
Database constraints are essential to ensuring data integrity, and you should use them. Allowing them to be deferrable during transactions makes them even more convenient. A common scenario in which t...
Writable Common Table Expressions 19 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
Writable common table expressions are a powerful feature of PostgreSQL that is rarely used when building applications with an ORM like ActiveRecord. It allows inserts, updates, and deletes to be perfo...
Anatomy of the new Hashrocket: Frontend & Design 16 Aug 2013 | 02:30 pm
As you may have noticed, we launched the new Hashrocket.com recently. This new site is a ground-up redesign & rewrite of the frontend – much of the backend was rewritten as well, but I’m a design guy,...
In Conversation: Russ Olsen 13 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
For the past two years I’ve noticed a trend when I’ve gone out to Ruby user groups in various parts of the country: beginning Rubyists who appear the most equipped and well on their way to Ruby profic...
Caching ActiveModel::Serializers on Heroku 5 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
If you’ve been using ActiveModel::Serializer, then you’re in for a treat. Rails' caching is now a first class citizen of the library, and enabling it couldn’t be easier. I like to define global seria...
Ruby5 Roundup - Episode 391 2 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
Matthew Conway and I teamed up again for an episode of the Ruby5 podcast. Here is a quick roundup of this week’s episode. http://ruby5.envylabs.com/episodes/427-episode-391-august-2nd-2013 VimGenius...
Congrats to our Client Satellite on Adobe Acquisition 1 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
A great client with an even more amazing product are acquired by Adobe. It was two years ago when I first met Lee Blankenship and Evan LaPointe from Search Discovery. They were coming in to story car...
Ember Routing, The When and Why of Nesting 30 Jul 2013 | 05:00 am
Understanding the proper use of the Router in an Ember.js app is a fundamental core concept of the framework. The docs tell us that the router translates a URL into a series of nested templates and al...
