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4 Strategies To Remove Dead Code from your Ruby App

How much does it cost you to carry dead code? How do you find and remove zombie Ruby code? Use these 4 strategies to kill out all the dead code in your Ruby application.
Stefanni Brasil
June 6, 2023
- Ruby
- Rails
- Development
Error Messages Are Our Friends

This article is about how to understand and embrace error messages as tools to help us find issues in our code.
Crystal Williams-Brown
April 3, 2023
A journey towards better Ruby on Rails testing practices

Testing Ruby on Rails and avoiding RSpec and FactoryBot anti-patterns.
Rémy Hannequin
March 14, 2023
- Testing
- Ruby
- Development
- Factory
- Ruby On Rails
- RSpec
- Factory Bot
Case Equality Operator in Ruby

An introduction to the === method in Ruby, and how it works in case expressions and beyond them.
Neil Carvalho
December 19, 2022
- Ruby
- Development
Histogram Distribution in Ruby is Double Tally

Using #tally to calculate the distribution of letters in a piece of text.
Joël Quenneville
October 31, 2022
- Ruby
- Development
enum VS enum VS enum - Enumeration, Enumerator & Enumerable

How do enums works in Ruby, and what they actually are.
Fernando Marques
October 4, 2022
- Enum
- Enumerable
- Enumerator
- Enumeration
- Design Pattern
- PostgreSQL
- Ruby
- Development
Using a Dependency Graph to Visualize RSpec let

A visual answer to the question “what data is created when I execute this test?”.
Joël Quenneville
October 3, 2022
- Development
- Web
- Ruby
- Rails
- Testing
Recapping our Ask Me Anything session with our partner 1871

A few weeks ago we got to join an Ask Me Anything (AMA) event to give thoughtbot’s perspective on product strategy, research, design, development, and culture.
Kelly Gebo
September 28, 2022
Recapping our June - August podcast episodes

If you’ve missed any of our recent podcasts, get a quick synopsis to see which ones you’d like to catch up on.
Liz Dombroski
September 22, 2022
- Podcast
- Development
- Interviews
- Leadership
- DEI
Working Iteratively

Working in small chunks is one of the most impactful things we can do as developers.
Joël Quenneville
September 15, 2022
- Development
- Playbook
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