Another week of great posts from the Flatiron students. Here are a few of my favorites.
Ivan’s Other People’s Dotfiles is an interested look at an issue I’m not super familiar with—backing up the dot files in my home directory. I plan to return to this later and get my home directory in order.
Eights Steps to Create a Simple Capybara Test is a clear discussion of something that we’re just now beginning to tackle; writing effective integration tests. This has already come in handy.
Ohhhh the singleton class. Christopher Lee’s post Demystifying Singleton Classes and Methods discusses this oft misunderstood concept. (I still don’t fully get it.)
I also appreciate Emily Xie’s post Link Generation in ERB With Rails, as this is something I’m currently working hard to understand.
We’re getting to the point where our apps have users and these users need to login. Manu’s post [OAuth 2.0 – What You Need to Know About It for Building Your Next App] (http://manu3569.github.io/blog/2013/11/06/oauth-2-dot-0-what-you-need-to-know-about-it-for-building-your-next-app/) was a great introduction to this handy tool for creating secure authorization systems for our apps. OAuth
