Many voices. One Flagrant.
What we did: Deleting huge amounts of code that was contributing to tech debt Finalized colors for the Rocky Mountain Ruby t-shirt! Started work with Ruby Central and am getting accustomed to their setup/mapping out the requests :D Set up another XO Ruby design book club. We’ll...
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September 24, 2025
What in the world is ParEdit? Here is the “explain it to me like I’m 5” version: “ParEdit is like a helpful assistant for editing code that uses a lot of parentheses (like in math or some programming languages). It makes sure you never accidentally mess up your parentheses, like leaving one
September 24, 2025
Rspec and testing using capybara: Running my tests and seeing it run live can be super helpful for several reasons but especially when I am encountering a flaky spec. If I am running through the code and the logic makes sense or I have a binding.pry in the code and it is coming back
September 24, 2025
If your server seems stuck or unresponsive, or maybe its telling you there is already a process running but you cant seem to find and shut it down, here’s a quick few-step process to identify and kill the process blocking the port: Find the process using the port: lsof -i tcp:3000 This will
September 24, 2025
Problem: Our current implementation relies on session storage to manage the open “tabs” a user has. The “tabs” are in quotes because this lives on a dashboard and they are actually radio buttons under the hood that are styled to look like tabs. When a user clicks a tab, it interacts
September 24, 2025
What’s a Good Sprint Cadence, Anyway? Sprint length. Estimating work. Getting stories over the line. These are the kinds of things that sound straightforward in theory but, in practice? They can get messy fast. If you’ve ever found yourself in a sprint meeting asking, “Wait, why are we even
September 24, 2025
If you have never seen or read the Grug Brained Developer, then you are welcome because here it is for you to enjoy. Cody, one of the developers at Flagrant, shared this with folks on the team and it was a good re-exposure for some and a nice first time reading for others. TL;DR: This is a
September 24, 2025
Soft Deletion I’m sure we have all run into soft deletion and if you haven’t, I will break it down for you. Soft deletion is all about having the ability to restore data we have deleted. Sorry, “deleted”. Essentially, you aren’t actually deleting data from the database, you are just
September 24, 2025
When developers think of testing, the knee-jerk reaction is often a push for 100% code coverage. But is coverage alone the best metric? Testing is complex and nuanced, with real-world trade-offs. Here’s how we approach testing with purpose, flexibility, and confidence. What Are Tests Really
September 24, 2025
I encountered an issue while working on a dynamic input field. The field allows users to input a number, with accompanying text indicating the type of input, like “nights.” It seemed straightforward until I realized the hardcoded label “nights” doesn’t work when the user enters the number 1. To
September 24, 2025
In this week’s Developer Roundtable, we dove into the topic of questionable emails and effective response strategies. In particular, the Flagrant email received a notification concerning a potential vulnerability to click-jacking on a website we are actively developing. Is this notification
September 12, 2025
Recently I did something I haven’t done for a long, long, long time — start up a Rails project from scratch. Well, I didn’t even really go “from scratch”, but from a jumping-off point, using Jumpstart. But let’s say that’s close enough to scratch. Since I’ve spent so much of my career
September 8, 2025
What we did: Started setting up a new design book club for XO Ruby, stay tuned 👀 Designed a special Training Tracker sticker to give out to volunteers Designed a graphic for DataTune to announce their site launch and a call for speakers Began researching a way to create an
September 3, 2025
Phase Knitting Yarn The first sighting Look at all ye yarn, oh so many choices to make Blank canvas, we meet again Endless possibilities So many combinations of stitches from knits, purls, to yarnovers So
