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At ChaiOne, we highly encourage that developers write tests in their projects. TDD (Test Driven Development) is also encouraged. Testing (and TDD) prevents bugs in production, forces better code, and encourages developer confidence when making changes to existing code bases.
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Rails is amazing. It has helped individuals and entrepreneurs build minimum viable products much faster. Here at ChaiOne, Rails is the default backend choice whether it is used as a whole website solution or just as the backend API server for the mobile apps we build. We love its elegant syntax and unparalleled development speed.
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When writing web applications, the abstractions you use to model the data are very important. Most of the time a simple relational table structure will do the job you need without much of a problem but, there are times where you have to do certain programming tasks that need to relate to rows in its own table. The most common example of this type of problem is a threaded discussion, where you need to know all the children of a node or the parent of any particular node. Luckily, this is a...