Three quick short tips to improve the performance of your test suite!

This blog post is about our Hacking Evenings, a weekly session in which we gather our team and do something to improve our knowledge. We have recently talked about it on Ruby Conf Brazil and Ruby Conf Uruguay as well!

Startup Weekend is a global network of passionate leaders and entrepreneurs on a mission to inspire, educate, and empower individuals, teams and communities. And when they say global, they really mean it! There are Startup Weekends in Germany, France, Poland, Malasya, China, Uruguay, USA and many other countries, incluing Brazil. It is the time and … »

Last week I spoke at Silicon Valley Ruby Group about PlataformaTec’s open source tools, mainly Devise, Simple Form and Responders. When talking about Devise, I’ve mentioned that, before creating Devise, we were alternating between using Authlogic or Clearance in our projects. However, we soon realized that we needed a solution that was as customizable as … »

When writing Crafting Rails Applications, I knew exactly which parts from Rails I wanted to talk about. However, I didn’t want the book to simply describe how everything works, I actually wanted everyone to build something useful from each part of Rails. One of the hardest areas to come up with an useful tool as … »

This year me and José Valim had the pleasure of going to Baltimore, in the US, to one of the biggest Rails events of the world! RailsConf is definitely the best place to have the opportunity of meeting and talking to a lot of great Rubyists and Railers, and also attending their talks. Not only … »