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RSpec and Rails Are Mocking Me
This post is about a very small Rails design decision. A Rails design decision that I’ve made over and over without thinking about it. You probably have, too. And then a weird test failure made me think about it. And then it made me overthink it.
Speaker Notes
After coming back from RailsConf, I have some tips about speaking at conferences. Which isn’t really a comment on the speakers I saw — I think, overall, the quality of the speakers has improved noticeably over the years — but more along the the lines of tips for people getting started.
RailsConf 2016 and other things to look at this week
This week’s things are a little late because of thing one.
How I Learned To Love Rubocop
As you may know, I’m a, shall we say, older programmer, and as such I’ve developed very strong, quasi-rational opinions over details like indentation and parenthesis. I even wrote a Ruby Style Guide once. (I think I even still believe nearly all of it). And while, I’m traditionally a live-and-let...
Five Things: April 29, 2016
Okay, I really am doing this for a second week in a row, even though it’s a bit late.
Taking Small Steps
Looking at it very abstractly, the time a software team spends on a project goes into one of three buckets.
Five Things From: The Week of April 22, 2016
Let’s try something new this week. At least new for me. If, by new, you mean, “haven’t done it in few years”.
In Defense of Pretty Lies
I’ve seen kind of an uptick of comments recently about how tools such as Haml, Sass, CoffeeScript, and ActiveRecord are supposed to be abstractions but are nothing but a big stack of lies, lies lies!