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  1. Time Zones and Rocket Ships

    Rocket launches show us that we can know that two future events will be simultaneous, or what the local time will be, but not both.

    Joël Quenneville
    December 6, 2022
    • Web
    • Rails
    • Ruby
  2. Building an Alexa Skill in Arabic with Ruby

    More detail on how the thoughtbot team built one of the first Alexa skills in Arabic, and what we learned about using Ruby on Rails to support the development of Alexa Skills in the process.

    Fritz Meissner, Sami Birnbaum & Kelly Gebo
    November 18, 2022
    • Ruby
    • Rails
    • Successful Products
  3. Making changes safely at scale

    Move fast but don’t break things.

    Thom Carter
    November 3, 2022
    • Web
    • Ruby
    • Rails
  4. 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
  5. 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
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    • Design Pattern
    • PostgreSQL
    • Ruby
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  6. 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
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    • Ruby
    • Rails
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  7. Value Object Semantics in Ruby

    What is the correct behavior of hash, ==, eql? and equal? for value objects?

    Joël Quenneville
    July 18, 2022
    • Ruby
    • Good Code
    • Domain Modeling
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  8. Booleans don't exist in Ruby

    An investigation into Ruby’s C, stdlib, interfaces, libraries, tooling, and ecosystem into what, exactly, Ruby thinks a Boolean is.

    Mike Burns
    July 15, 2022
    • Ruby
  9. Connascence as a vocabulary to discuss Coupling

    How Connascence can make discussions around Coupling easier and more productive.

    Matheus Sales
    June 20, 2022
    • Coupling
    • Connascence
    • Ruby
    • Refactor
  10. It's official - RSpec Training

    Formalizing how we support our clients with unique to you RSpec training.

    Kelly Gebo
    June 15, 2022
    • Ruby
    • Test
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