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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
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
Making changes safely at scale

Move fast but don’t break things.
Thom Carter
November 3, 2022
- Web
- Ruby
- Rails
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
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
- Web
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
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
It's official - RSpec Training

Formalizing how we support our clients with unique to you RSpec training.
Kelly Gebo
June 15, 2022
- Ruby
- Test
- Testing
- Mentoring
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