Ruby rewards thinking about types with a dynamic mindset instead of a static one. In this workshop, we'll show how use Ruby's dynamism to your advantage.

New Ruby developers often wonder how to write safe code in Ruby without static typing. In this workshop, we’re going to refactor working code to get the data validation and safety of static typing, but using Ruby’s existing features.

Rails is powerful, but it doesn't do everything. Sometimes you want to build your own tool that adds functionality to Rails. If it's something that might be useful for other people, you can write a Ruby Gem and distribute it. In this workshop, we will go through the entire process of creating a gem, starting with `bundle gem` and ending with how to publish it with `gem push`.

The 2021 remote version of my workshop on building front-end apps with Hotwire.

In this workshop, we'll focus on two specific problems that plague testing complex systems: how do I create useful test data, and how do I limit my test to only the part of the system that I want tested. We'll cover data creation tools like factories and fixtures. We will also talk about how to effectively use mock objects. And we'll do all that against some code that shows off potental testing problems.