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Little factories
You’ve probably used Rails fixtures or factory_bot to set up an object for testing purposes.
May 5, 2023
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Joel Drapper
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January 2023
Miscellaneous updates
Hey everyone, it’s been a while since I wrote anything here, so here’s a quick update on a few things I’ve got going on:
Jan 24, 2023
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Joel Drapper
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December 2022
In memory of Chris Seaton
I could hardly breathe when I read Chris Seaton’s final tweets last Saturday.
Dec 10, 2022
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Joel Drapper
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In memory of Chris Seaton
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November 2022
Mixing HTML attributes in Ruby
Hey 👋 It’s been a minute since we did one of these Naming Things episodes but I’m trying to get back into it again.
Nov 3, 2022
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Joel Drapper
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Kasper Timm Hansen
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1:41:50
October 2022
Custom exception inheritance
It’s a good idea to define custom exception classes in Ruby libraries to allow users to match against specific library exceptions.
Oct 25, 2022
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Joel Drapper
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Magic template methods
Part of the interface for Phlex views is that they define an instance method for the template.
Oct 21, 2022
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Joel Drapper
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September 2022
Ruby is a beautiful language for writing views
A couple of months ago, I was made redundant from my job at Shopify.
Sep 21, 2022
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Joel Drapper
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Ruby is a beautiful language for writing views
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July 2022
Acidic Job awaited steps
Joel and Stephen work on a feature in Acidic Job that lets you configure certain steps to await other steps.
Jul 17, 2022
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Joel Drapper
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Stephen Margheim
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1:43:37
rails new
Joel and Kasper start building a group event scheduling app from rails new.
Jul 10, 2022
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Joel Drapper
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Kasper Timm Hansen
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53:14
June 2022
Sitting Ducks
A common refactoring in object-oriented programming is to take a complex method or set of methods and extract a new class from them.
Jun 20, 2022
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Joel Drapper
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Naming Things
Phil Karlton once said, “there are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.”
Jun 18, 2022
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Joel Drapper
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[WIP]
Coming soon, Naming Things is a video show where we pair on an interesting software problem for an hour or so once a week.
Jun 13, 2022
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Joel Drapper
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Kasper Timm Hansen
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