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Psst⌠You can use FactoryBot to test Plain ole Ruby Objects. So go ahead. Extract a PORO. Write a spec. Guaranteed to give you that âI made my bed todayâ kind of feeling. # app/models/arrow_down.rb class ArrowDown # Build an arrow beginning at @from and ending at @to # from |-⎠|...
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October 11, 2023
Psst⌠You can use FactoryBot to test Plain ole Ruby Objects. So go ahead. Extract a PORO. Write a spec. Guaranteed to give you that âI made my bed todayâ kind of feeling. # app/models/arrow_down.rb class ArrowDown # Build an arrow beginning at @from and ending at @to # from |-⎠|
August 10, 2023
ActiveRecord can be so seamless, that it can make something thatâs relatively costly in the DB look cheap in terms of characters you need to type. One place where this crops up is in an N+1 Query. Set the scene Letâs say we have a common âPostsâ with âCommentsâ structure of something. Here
July 3, 2023
Hello! My name is Valenzia Cina, and I am a Graphic Designer at Flagrant. Ever since I was a little kid, I had a drive to create. My parents would always say that as soon as I was able to hold a pencil I would draw for hours, my focus unbroken. I still find myself able to sit for long hours to
May 4, 2023
If you took your favorite programming language and then started pulling things out of it, where could you stop? Could you remove variables? Operator precedence? Braces, brackets, parentheses? Function arguments and return values? First off, this seems like a weird thing to think of, even
March 22, 2023
Sometimes when youâre working on a system, you find something standing in the way of progress that is so baked-in, so foundational, so fundamental that itâs hard to do anything about it. Or itâs even hard to even see at first. I like to call things like these the âoriginal sinsâ of a system.
March 10, 2023
In âUnderstanding Comicsâ, Scott McCloud talks about a six-step path that the creation of art goes through. (Just to side-step any philosophical debate on âwhat is art?â, he himself says âthe creation of any work in any mediumâ, and Iâll rephrase that as âany creative endeavorâ. As in any time
February 22, 2023
Have you ever seen one of those push-button marionette toys? Theyâre basically a bunch of beads with a string running through them. When the string is tight, it holds all the beads together in shape, and you can see it as a dog, or person, or whatever. But push the button and loosen the string,
January 6, 2023
We remember the era of âmove fast and break thingsâ, right? It felt edgy and cool, but Iâve never been cool and it didnât feel right to me. I like to focus instead on âkeeping things movingâ and âkeeping things workingâ. The âmove fast and break thingsâ saying makes it sound a bit like moving
November 15, 2022
This is the sixth and final post in a series on things we explored while âRevamping the Ruby Central Conference Websitesâ. Lesson 1: Knowing When to Build vs Dig Lesson 2: Averting Monkey Patches with a Custom CMS Lesson 3: Braving Mad Science with Tailwind Lesson 4: Planning
November 15, 2022
This is the fifth post in a series on things we explored while âRevamping the Ruby Central Conference Websitesâ. Lesson 1: Knowing When to Build vs Dig Lesson 2: Averting Monkey Patches with a Custom CMS Lesson 3: Braving Mad Science with Tailwind Lesson 4: Planning HTTP/Proxy
November 15, 2022
This is the fourth post in a series on things we explored while âRevamping the Ruby Central Conference Websitesâ. Lesson 1: Knowing When to Build vs Dig Lesson 2: Averting Monkey Patches with a Custom CMS Lesson 3: Braving Mad Science with Tailwind Lesson 4: Planning HTTP/Proxy
November 15, 2022
This is the third post in a series on things we explored while âRevamping the Ruby Central Conference Websitesâ. Lesson 1: Knowing When to Build vs Dig Lesson 2: Averting Monkey Patches with a Custom CMS Lesson 3: Braving Mad Science with Tailwind âŹ ď¸ Lesson 4: Planning
November 15, 2022
This is the second post in a series on things we explored while âRevamping the Ruby Central Conference Websitesâ. Lesson 1: Knowing When to Build vs Dig Lesson 2: Averting Monkey Patches with a Custom CMS âŹ ď¸ Lesson 3: Braving Mad Science with Tailwind Lesson 4: Planning
November 15, 2022
This is the first post in a multi-part series on things we explored while âRevamping the Ruby Central Conference Websitesâ. Lesson 1: Knowing When to Build vs Dig âŹ ď¸ Lesson 2: Averting Monkey Patches with a Custom CMS Lesson 3: Braving Mad Science with Tailwind Lesson 4:
August 30, 2022
Imagine youâre digging through some part of a system, and you come across something that looks confusing. Youâre trying to figure out why something is done, or why itâs done the way it is. You have so many questions running through your head: Was this a conscious decision? Did it just happen?
