We are using the BEM pattern ("Block, Element, Modifier") to structure our CSS in all new projects. We try to...
In a web application you often need to move data between the client (HTML, Javascript) and the server (Ruby, Rails...
Rubymonk training Read the following Rubymonk articles: Ruby Primer: Ascent (archived copy) Metaprogramming Ruby (archived copy) Metaprogramming Ruby: Ascent (archived...
Method lookup Understand all the terms in How Ruby method lookup works, in particular: include extend singleton class
Jasmine is a great tool to unit test your JavaScript components without writing an expensive end-to-end test for...
Many of our clients can't or don't want to design their user interfaces. In the absence of a...
In our daily life as web developers we are constantly faced with technical problems that can be solved with a...
Adopting legacy Rails apps Talk to your mentor about how we're approaching applications that are either old or abandoned...
Goal of this lesson is to understand what middlewares in Rack are good for. Rack Start with these articles:
Some tasks in a web application are better not done live when a user request a page, but in the...
Resources Rails Guide: Internationalization API Guide to localizing a Rails application Locale-aware helpers in ActionView::Helpers::NumberHelper
Action Mailer Basics and Previews Chapter "Task H1: Sending Mail" from Agile Web Development with Rails 7.2 (in our...
What is rake good for? Take a look at some of the Rake tasks that Rails gives you (rake...
Rails ships with two separate build pipelines: Sprockets ("asset pipeline") and Webpacker. Webpacker has many more moving parts, but allows...
Talk with a colleague and find out why we're using building some of our sites using static site...