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testingrubyminitest

Pay Attention to Method Names in Minitest::Unit

Defining name, message, time or pass in a Minitest test case overrides Minitest::TestCase's own methods. What breaks, and what to call them instead.

rubyrailsdevelopment

Recent Searches & Sorting Hashes: How They are Connected

In one of the applications, that we are developing, we needed to implement the storing of 10 last user search requests.

startupmanagementagile

4 Steps to Bring Life into a Struggling Project

Rescue struggling startup projects: 4-step framework to revive stalled development. Learn how to rebuild team momentum, fix technical debt, and ship results ✓

javascriptrubyrails

5 Steps to Add Remote Modals to Your Rails App

Sometimes you don’t want to write big JavaScript application just to have working remote modals in your rails application.

herokustartupaws

A Free Heroku Setup for an Early-Stage Rails Project

The Heroku-based stack we used to stand up an early Rails product: hosting, database, error tracking, monitoring and background jobs.

androidreactnativecircleci

Automating React Native App Delivery With Fastlane

Delivering mobile application’s updates is not as simple as in the case of a web application.

rubyrailsbestpractices

Avoid data migrations in the schema migrations for Rails

Could you re-run all migrations in the project? How often were you required to fix them while production was under fire?

productdevelopment

Building Agent Inbox to Fix Real Estate Messaging

The story of building Agent Inbox’s mobile and desktop messaging platform.

agileprogrammingtdd

Can Test-Driven Development in Agile Replace QA?

Can test-driven development replace QA in an agile team? How TDD works, what QA covers beyond unit tests, and why the two work best side by side.

agilechecklistdevelopment

Checklist for the non-tech founder

Non-tech founder checklist for managing dev teams: Track commits, standups, Kanban boards. Control your product development without technical expertise ✓

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