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Capybara and Poltergeist: Snap!

11 Dec 2012

Poltergeist is a great JavaScript driver for Capybara. Use this helper method to get quick page snapshots to debug your tests.

The One Thing You Should Not Bring to Your Next Conference

04 Dec 2012

While packing for an upcoming conference, you think to yourself, 'I know what I'll do. I'll bring my laptop!' Now you've got problems.

Creating an SSH Tunnel to a Remote Service

28 Nov 2012

File this under just-blog-it-already-so-you-can-stop-googling-it

A Domainr CLI in Less Than 15 Lines of Ruby

27 Nov 2012

The arbitrary less-than-15-lines constraint is back, baby! This time, a Domainr CLI

Thankful

23 Nov 2012

You may not know this about me, but I used to be a pretty wretched guy. I'm still a pretty wretched guy, but I used to be, too.

An Algorithm to Reliably Identify Nested Substrings

12 Nov 2012

Regular expressions are great for matching many patterns, but they often fall down when dealing with recursive matching. In these cases, there is a simple algorithm that you can use which is more reliable than regular expressions.

Ruby Rebus Answers

09 Nov 2012

These are the Ruby Rebus answers you're looking for.

Ruby Rebus

31 Oct 2012

20 Ruby-based movie title Rebus puzzles. Can you guess them all?!

How Atebits' Letterpress Could Really Shine (and Make a Lot of Money)

28 Oct 2012

Letterpess is already a success by almost any measure. It reached #16 in the App Store's free apps chart and managed to bring Game Center to its knees over the app's first week of availability. But I think Letterpress has an opportunity to really shine.

A Common Gotcha When Using Ruby Regexps For Input Validation

19 Oct 2012

Ruby's regular expressions have an idiosyncrasy that can get you in trouble when doing input validation. Find out how to avoid this common gotcha in this post.