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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
Your flaky tests might be time dependent

Time dependent tests are difficult to diagnose, and the symptoms don’t present themselves until it’s too late. This article will help you determine if your test suite is time dependent.
Steve Polito
December 5, 2022
- Testing
- Rails
- Web
What happens when you stop maintaining your Rails application?

Here are the risks and common scenarios we see when a team doesn’t have a plan for ongoing maintenance for their Rails application. We also share how we support clients in these situations with our new, flexible, Rails Maintenance offering.
Jeanine Soterwood
November 21, 2022
- Good Code
- TDD
- Testing
- Rails
- Web
- Technical Debt
Automate manual deployments with Git and binstubs

Your team’s manual deployment process doesn’t have to be so manual. Here’s how we automated our team’s deployment process with a few lines of bash and basic Git knowledge.
Steve Polito
November 14, 2022
- Git
- Web
- Shell
- Automation
Making changes safely at scale

Move fast but don’t break things.
Thom Carter
November 3, 2022
- Web
- Ruby
- Rails
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
How to decide if Jamstack is the right choice for your MVP

After tapping Jamstack for a few MVP builds, we’ve summarized considerations for your own product and some tips for digging into third party providers.
Kelly Gebo and Jimmy Thigpen
July 28, 2022
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
Tips for Using FactoryBot Without an ORM

Exploring how to use FactoryBot effectively with models backed by plain Ruby objects.
Oli Peate
April 28, 2022
- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
- Ruby
- Rails
- Web
Reducing Leaky Abstractions Introduced by ActiveRecord

ActiveRecord provides a comprehensive interface for querying the database, but at what cost?
Josh Clayton
March 30, 2022
- Rails
- Ruby
- Web
- Good Code
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