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Introducing thoughtbot.social: Our Social Media Space on Mastodon

thoughtbot is now on Mastodon!
Victoria Guido, Christopher Kuttruff & Mina Slater
December 30, 2022
thoughtbot Apprenticeship Applications for Europe, West Asia and Africa for 2023 Are Now Open

Applications are now open for our first 2023 Apprenticeships. This is our paid, junior-level position providing structured support and mentorship to get you to be a billable thoughtbot Designer or Ruby on Rails Developer.
Rob Whittaker
December 28, 2022
This week in #dev (Dec 16, 2022)

Highlights of what happened in our #dev channel on Slack this week.
thoughtbot
December 27, 2022
- This Week In Dev
- Rails
- Ruby
- JavaScript
- TIL
In praise of verbosity

I often find myself running into mysterious command line errors as I install different development dependencies over and over. Fortunately many commands have an option for verbose output that gives more insight.
Fritz Meissner
December 26, 2022
- Tips
- Troubleshooting
Pro-Bono Customer Discovery Sprint - Applications Open

Applications are now open to SBIR + STTR Grant Recipients for a pro-bono sprint that is designed to set you up for future growth and fundraising.
Jordyn Bonds
December 23, 2022
Convert Fahrenheit and Celsius: The easy way

Converting temperatures between Fahrenheit and Celsius is hard - this formula makes it easier.
Stephanie Kuroda
December 22, 2022
How to validate the presence of a boolean field in a Rails model

A subtle bug happens when validating the presence of boolean fields in Rails. Here’s how to find it before it hits production.
Stefanni Brasil
December 21, 2022
- Testing
- Ruby
- Rails
This week in #dev (Dec 2, 2022)

Running shell commands in Ruby, truly random numbers, fixing flaky tests, and how to get the most out of TypeScript.
thoughtbot
December 20, 2022
- This Week In Dev
- Testing
- Ruby
- TypeScript
- TIL
- Tip
Case Equality Operator in Ruby

An introduction to the === method in Ruby, and how it works in case expressions and beyond them.
Neil Carvalho
December 19, 2022
- Ruby
- Development
How to Fix Rails 6.1 'Initialization autoloaded the constants' Warning Messages

Got autoloading during initialization warning messages in your Rails 6.1 app? It’s time to_prepare for the next version.
Stefanni Brasil
December 15, 2022
- Rails Upgrade
- Rails
- Ruby
- Web
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