Velocity Labs What Can I Expect From Our Initial Meeting?
This article describes what what you can expect from our initial meeting, what information we're trying to gather and why we're gathering it.
Read The Article »Find and replace {} in sed
There is an awkward gotcha when trying to find and replace the empty hash/object with sed from the command line.
Read The Article »Per tenant IDs, with CanCanCan
This article shows you how to scope IDs to tenants in a multitenant system, using CanCanCan, in Ruby on Rails.
Read The Article »Prevent Rails From Caching in Development
We ran into a strange problem in our development environment recently that had us puzzled. Even though we'd turned off caching, we were still seeing cached results. What's going on?!
Read The Article »Level Up With a New Podcast
Chris keeps telling me I should listen to more podcasts, but I keep putting it off. No more! I've made it a goal to create a wondorous playlist of epic proportions. Here's a podcast I found recently that kept my attention, was interesting and fit perfectly into my commute.
Read The Article »CodeDay Phoenix - May 23-24, 2015
CodeDay is an event geared toward students, where they go from idea to app in 24 hours. It's been organized in Phoenix a few times and we're really excited to see it back again. Check it out!
Read The Article »Pessimistic Prerelease Peculiarities
We show that a commonly held assumption about the pessimistic requirement operator isn't necessarily always true, specifically when dealing with prerelease gem versions
Read The Article »5 Indispensible Rails Testing Gems
There are certain Ruby gems that we've found to be useful and include in every project we work on. Here are a few of the testing gems we feel are indispensible.
Read The Article »STI store: Putting attributes in their place
We show some of the disadvantages which arise when adding attributes to models which use single table inheritance, and introduce a new approach which resolves them.
Read The Article »3 Things We're Looking Forward to at RailsConf 2015
Velocity Labs is traveling to Atlanta for RailsConf 2015. Here are a few things we're excited about for the conference!
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