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A Broader Take on Parsing

Broadening our definition of “parsing” yields some useful insights.
Joël Quenneville
October 14, 2021
- Elm
- Ruby
- Parsing
- Web
Ruby safe navigation

Ruby’s safe navigation can hide some subtle edge cases. We explore approaches to think about conditional logic, alternatives to &., and when &. is the best tool for the job.
Joël Quenneville
October 13, 2021
- Development
- Web
- Ruby
Models That Match Reality

When modeling a domain, it’s important to have our model actually match reality.
Joël Quenneville
October 12, 2021
- Design
- Web
- Elm
- Ruby
- Modeling
Fewer Operations on Custom Types is Valuable

Less is more. Wrapping primitives in custom types restricts your available operations and that’s a good thing.
Joël Quenneville
October 11, 2021
- Elm
- Ruby
- Web
Rubocop: Custom Cops for Custom Needs

Parsers, grepping, ASCII art, and how that helps you automating boring stuff.
Matheus Richard
October 5, 2021
- Rubocop
- Linters
- Rails
- Ruby
Testing Your Edge Cases

A little combination math goes a long way to catching edge cases.
Joël Quenneville
September 8, 2021
- Testing
- Ruby
- Development
Back to Basics: Boolean Expressions

Write Boolean expressions using operators instead of if/else for a more readable outcome.
Joël Quenneville
June 28, 2021
- Back To Basics
- Ruby
- Development
- Web
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
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