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Simplifying Tests by Extracting Side-Effects

Test-driven development, object-oriented design, and functional programming converge on some similar ideas.
Joël Quenneville
February 18, 2021
- Web
- Ruby
- TDD
- Testing
- Functional Programming
- Good Code
Testing Objects with a Functional Mindset

Some ideas from functional programming can help us improve the unit tests for our object-oriented code.
Joël Quenneville
January 19, 2021
- Web
- Functional Programming
- Testing
- Good Code
- Ruby
Type systems and checking in Elixir and Ruby

Adding type checking to dynamically typed languages is possible, and awesome!
Hawley Brett
January 18, 2021
- Elixir
- Ruby
- Types
- Good Code
The Self-Contained Test

Learn how to write tests so they’re easy to read and your colleagues will thank you.
Edward Loveall
May 18, 2020
- Testing
- Good Code
- Ruby
New online workshop: Protect your Rails app against security threats during COVID-19

Join us as we discuss the rise of security threats during COVID-19, and how upgrading your Rails application can protect your business and users.
Daniel Colson
May 7, 2020
- Security
- Rails Upgrade
- Remote
- Workshops
- Code Audit
- Web
- Ruby
- Rails
Web Security During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought with it an increase in cyber threats, but we can fight back by being more thoughtful about web security.
Daniel Colson
April 20, 2020
- Security
- Web
- Ruby
- Rails
- Rails Upgrade
- Code Audit
Recurring Events and PostgreSQL

Scheduling, recurring events and relative dates have always been hard. Until now.
Jonas Meinerz
March 24, 2020
- PostgreSQL
- Dates
- Interval
- Rails
- Ruby
- Duration
- Web
- Databases
A maintained fork of Paperclip

A fork of Paperclip is being maintained.
Mike Burns
March 10, 2020
- News
- Paperclip
- Ruby
Decimating deprecated finders

Use synvert snippets to automatically rewrite ruby code for a smoother upgrade path to Rails 5.
Jesse Bailey
December 11, 2019
- Parsing
- Ruby
- Rails Upgrade
- Rails 5
- Rails
Faking External Services in Tests with Adapters

When faking external services in tests, start with something simple. I like having a public interface to adapters and having an in-memory adapter for tests. Let me show you an example.
German Velasco
November 28, 2019
- Testing
- Ruby
- Rails
- Web
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