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5 tips for keeping your Rails views under control

Use & enforce design and code styleguides for SASS & views Markup is about content not design Use SASS variables mixins Move CSS classes up in the DOM & design changes to CSS Use decorators (or helpers) to: Generate classes Generate copy Generate HTML attributes View my RailsConf talk on Incremental Design. #mc_embed_signup{background:#fff; ...

The Path to Becoming a Developer :: Skillcrush Masterclass

Recently, I had the honor of doing a Skillcrush Masterclass on the Path to Becoming a Developer. I talked about how I became a developer, mining your own experience, and presented on the 4 things you can do now to become a professional developer: (more…)

Incremental Design — A conversation with a Designer and a Developer at RailsConf 2013

Here is my Rails Conf 2013 talk! Developers: how many times have you had to completely rip out your hard earned code for a totally new site design? Designers: how many times has a re-design taken 4 times as long as the developer said it would and not looked good in the end? Change all that by using an incremental approach to design. Set up your code to change ...

Rails Single Table Inheritance Helper Module

Single table inheritance is a somewhat controversial topic in Rails land. For me, I like the Rails magic that it brings and, you know, the inheritance. However, it can clearly be abused. Here is my one rule for using Single table inheritance: (more…)

Debugging Cucumber in RubyMine {Quick Hit}

Using Cucumber and Rspec for the first time has been ... a little frustrating. I followed along with the main tutorial in The Rspec Book and then skimmed the later chapters. I thought it was quite good until I had to start testing an actual rails app and felt a little at a loss. But I digress ... (more…)