Running projects parallel makes some trouble with PDF generation. Use geordi rspec spec to force sequential tests for the whole...
If you see a stacktrace beginning with lines like this: E, [2015-07-16T09:23:10.896146 #23308] ERROR -- : app...
Sometimes you need to run background jobs that you can't make important guarantees about - they may run out of...
If a SOAP API expects you to call a remote method with arguments of complex types, Savon lets you manually...
Large projects usually have large test suites that can run for a long time. This can be annoying as running...
As developers we are dealing with many tasks every week. We need a system to organize ourselves. Goals After completing...
How can a client blame you for a cab driver’s mistake? How can a conference organizer hold you accountable...
Understand the differences between git diff and git diff --staged (or git diff --cached) Understand the difference between git...
Get an idea of the varying support for HTML/CSS/JavaScript features in different browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Edge...
Learn Enough Command Line to be Dangerous (it's in our library => Google Drive) CLI tricks every developer should...
Action Mailer Basics and Previews Chapter "Task H1: Sending Mail" from Agile Web Development with Rails 7.2 (in our...
Learn to treat files as an ActiveRecord attribute type, like :string or :integer Research Look at the README for...
Understand what Memoization is and when it can be useful. Understand the @variable ||= computation pattern. Learn how to use...
In this card we will learn to write code that scales with a large number of database records. We will...
Understand why we use pagination Exercises Create 7500 movies in MovieDB (hint: Doing it in a single transaction is...
Learn to read and write Haml. Understand the different attributes syntaxes (curly braces vs. round parentheses) Exercises Convert MovieDB...
CSS (+ some Javascript) framework, implementing Google's material design for static web pages. Can be used for plain websites without...
In most of our applications, users have their first and last name stored in separate columns. However, specifying them separately...
Read the following chapters from The Pragmatic Programmer, anniversary edition (in our library): Chapter 1, Topic 3: Software Entropy...
JavaScript is a scripting language supported by all browsers. Browsers don't speak Ruby, so if we want to implement...
Understand at least the following CSS concepts: Classes Selecting elements for styling Basic styling (color, typography, spacing)
Understand why we test: Low defect rate without a QA department. Customer acceptance testing can concentrate on new features...
Rails is our web framework. Goals Be able to write a simple Rails application. Understand how Rails talks to the...
Git is our version control system. Goals Understand why we use git. Learn how to work with your local repository...