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Now that I can write React Native, what should I test?

Rev up the leaf blower on React Native testing weeds – focus your testing where it truly matters!
Oluwatomi Oluwafemi Alu
June 10, 2024
Async Ruby on Rails

Ruby and Rails have several features to make your code more performant using async programming. Here’s a list of these tools and how to use them.
Matheus Richard
June 7, 2024
- Ruby
- Rails
- Concurrency
3 Mental Models For Ruby Enumerators

Get a better understanding of Ruby enumerators by looking at them from 3 different perspectives.
Joël Quenneville
June 5, 2024
This Week in Open Source

Recent thoughtbot open source updates.
Sara Jackson
June 3, 2024
Writing Quality Method Docs

Things I think about when putting together effective method-level documentation.
Joël Quenneville
May 31, 2024
- Web
- Development
How I saved 100 GB of disk space on my Mac

Strategies to reclaim precious disk space on your Mac, and bid farewell to the dreaded ‘Your disk is almost full’ message.

Rakesh Arunachalam
May 30, 2024
Migrating from feature specs to system specs

Rails supports writing Capybara tests out of the box since the 5.1 release in the form of system tests. This means you no longer need to configure database cleaning strategies or have webdriver configuration files with hard-to-understand configuration settings. This article explores how to migrate Feature specs in an existing Rails app to the default System specs.
Trésor Bireke
May 29, 2024
Product Management Insights: Understanding Your Users

This is a series where we delve into the world of product management. This week we discuss the art of understanding your users.
Jared Turner, Jason Bailey, Bryce Morisako, Daniel Kim, Bethan Ashley & Victoria Bell
May 28, 2024
Dealing with flaky tests

Flaky tests waste your team’s time. Have a process for quarantining them and debugging them.
Dimiter Petrov
May 27, 2024
- Testing
Getting design and development on the same page

Discover how seamless design-dev teamwork transforms outcomes.
Omolola Adedayo
May 24, 2024
- Design
- Development
- Team
- Collaboration
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