Tag Archives: Rails

Backbone Boilerplate Vs. Rails Asset Pipeline

Posted on March 22, 2013 by Shine Technologies

We recently shifted from Backbone Boilerplate to the Rails Asset Pipeline for generating the various assets (Javascript, CSS, HTML, images, etc) that comprise teamstuff.com, a single-page app. In this post I’ll talk about our motivations for making the shift, what we had to change to get … Continue reading →

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So how much slower are instantiated fixtures?

Posted on May 3, 2010 by Shine Technologies

On an early Rails project I elected to use instantiated fixtures. My rationale was that it would make my test code cleaner and easier to understand. Sure, test_helper.rb warned me that they would be slow, but how bad could it … Continue reading →

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