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  • Rails generate model: be specific
    27 Nov 2015
  • Testing with MiniTest
    7 Apr 2015
  • Rails: Prevent Accidental Debugging Commits
    15 Oct 2014
  • Deploying with git-deploy
    31 Oct 2013
  • Decorating Sorcery's current_user with Draper
    2 Nov 2012
  • Rails migrations: decimal precision and scale
    28 Aug 2012
  • Search and Replace in multiple files with Vim
    18 Jun 2012
  • Decorating Devise's current_user with Draper
    14 Apr 2012
  • Showing Ruby, Rails and git info in your app
    2 Apr 2012
  • Automatically switch between SSL and non-SSL with Nginx+Unicorn+Rails
    22 Oct 2011
  • Rails 3: Customized exception handling
    14 Oct 2011
  • Fast specs - Run your specs in less than 1 second
    13 Oct 2011
  • Testing Rails 3 scopes revisited
    9 Oct 2011
  • Properly testing Rails 3 scopes
    25 Sep 2011
  • RSpec speed-up (24.6%) by tweaking ruby garbage collection
    24 Sep 2011
  • Capistrano and the custom maintenance page
    19 Sep 2011
  • Lighting fast, zero-downtime deployments with git, capistrano, nginx and Unicorn
    14 Sep 2011
  • Rails 3 + Devise + Uploadify = No Flash Session Hacks
    27 Mar 2011
  • Upgrading to Mongoid Beta 6
    30 May 2010
  • Bundler + Passenger with Rails 2.3.5? Yes, please!
    17 May 2010
  • Once and for all: Rails migrations integer :limit option
    20 Aug 2009
  • Speaking at Rails Underground
    14 Jun 2009
  • has_one - find all that have no associated object
    7 Jun 2009
  • How To Start A Rails Edge App The Easy Way
    4 Jan 2009
  • RSpec'ing with Time.now
    5 Nov 2008
  • BaseApp: a quick start for your Rails App
    28 Sep 2008
  • ActiveRecord Read Only Model
    17 Aug 2008
  • Skinny Controllers and Overweight Models
    17 Aug 2008
  • Zoek jij 'n uitdagende baan??
    6 Jun 2008
  • Debian Etch: RMagick LoadError
    10 Apr 2008
  • Rails Snippet: Caching expensive calls
    9 Apr 2008
  • Ruby on Rails plugin: Throttler
    7 Feb 2008
  • Rails: calculated column caching
    6 Dec 2007
  • RailsJobs.nl - Ruby on Rails Jobs in The Netherlands
    27 Nov 2007
Ariejan de Vroom

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Ariejan de Vroom is a seasoned software engineer, writing from the trenches, sharing pragmatic take-aways for fellow developers.

When he’s not architecting backend systems, you’ll find him playing bass guitar, restoring his 1994 VW Golf Mk3 Cabrio, or out on family adventures and hiking with his standard poodle Nova.

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