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Your MovieDB gained traction and is now a popular tool among cineasts. This comes with a downside: You noticed a...

Talk with a colleague and find out why we're using building some of our sites using static site...

We are using the BEM pattern ("Block, Element, Modifier") to structure our CSS in all new projects. We try to...

For each movie in MovieDB, we want to track which other movie it was inspired by. For...

It smells. Rethink your code design. Code example with makandra/has_defaults: class Post < ActiveRecord::Base has_defaults tags: [] # field in db...

We use Selenium WebDriver integrated with Cucumber/Capybara for full-stack integration testing. Try and use it Your forked MovieDB should...

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Built-in matchers Get an overview of all the matchers that are built into RSpec. Play with some of...

Spreewald comes with a selector_for helper that matches an English term like the user's profile into a CSS...

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I am happy to announce that this information is now available in JSON form at https://ip-ranges.amazonaws.com/ip-ranges.json. The information...

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What is rake good for? Take a look at some of the Rake tasks that Rails gives you (rake...

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How do HTTP requests and responses look like? What are HTTP headers? What are they used for?

If you need a postgresql extension for your database it isn't a good idea to give your applications database...

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Read the Rails Guide about Active Record migrations Understand why we never use models in migrations. Checkout the repository...

Understand how asynchronous JavaScript works: Read Henning's presentation about asynchronous Javascript (there's also a German video presentation...

In a web application you often need to move data between the client (HTML, Javascript) and the server (Ruby, Rails...

Exercise 1: Maps In MovieDB, add a new field “Principal filming location”. In a movie’s show view, geocode that...

Use form models to handle this problem Or soften the validation to validates_presence_of :parent

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makandra's development process Learn about our process. The squares represent the state of the issue in Linear:

If you hover over the text of a card, you will now see EDIT links at the top right corner...

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tig is a command line explorer for Git that is just awesome. Install via apt-get or brew. Handy commands...

Web security basics Einführung in die Web Security 🇩🇪 provides essentials for the topic of this card. Read following chapters:

Rubymonk training Read the following Rubymonk articles: Ruby Primer: Ascent (archived copy) Metaprogramming Ruby (archived copy) Metaprogramming Ruby: Ascent (archived...

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Watch Solving bizarre authorization requirements with Rails Read the Consul README Read the assignable_values README Understand how Consul...

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CTRL + SHIFT + ALT + N Search for any symbol in your application, like CSS classes, Ruby classes, methods, helpers etc...