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Triangle.rb Notes - Things To Look Out For In Rails 5

Things To Look Out For In Rails 5 2017-01-10 with Brandon Mathis (meetup) History Rails 1 Rails 2 Tiobe language popularity ranking EnvyLabs "commercials" They did a whole series of "Rails Versus xxx", which might be hard to find now. Here's Rails Versus PHP _why the

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Triangle.rb Notes - Ten Gems To Know About

Ten Gems To Know About 2016-07-12 by Brandon Mathis (Meetup) pry pry-byebug (also byebug) awesome_print quiet_assets faker letter_opener rubocop brakeman taperole flamegraph pry Edit ~/.ircrb to automatically use pry instead of irb. (Or just type pry into the terminal instead of irb.) awesome_print Colorizes Ruby's built-in

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Fun With Ruby Enumerators

Yesterday evening for fun I decided to write a factorial method in Ruby. My first attempt looked like this. 5.times.inject(&:*) This is a really elegant solution, and it almost works, but Fixnum#times starts counting at 0. Normally this isn't an issue since n.times is usually

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Triangle.rb Notes - Nothing Is Something

http://www.meetup.com/raleighrb/events/224075188/ 2015-08-11 by Sandi Metz (video of the same talk at RailsConf) Smalltalk infected Condition adverse Message sending Abstraction seeking Bunch of code slides here... Ruby has special syntax for booleans Conditions breed! Null Object Pattern - "Active Nothing" Prefer knowing object

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Triangle.rb Notes - Code Katas

Code Katas: Growing Through Deliberate Practice 2015-04-14 by Cory Foy (Meetup) (blog post) Takeaways Test First Simple Solution Judicious Refactoring Elegance Emerged Four Rules Of Simple Design Runs all the tests No duplication Expresses developer intent Minimizes number of classes and methods We have become afraid of what will happen

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Triangle.rb Notes - RSpec

Develop An RSpec Test Suite (Choose Your Own Test Adventure) 2015-02-10 by Michael Stalker (Meetup) Tests should not be an excuse for thinking. Rich Hickey Things Turn Confusing tests interact with database? et cetera... Dragons never-ending tests excessive setup fragile tests hard to write intermittent failures tests stay broken Why?

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Triangle.rb Notes - Ember

Introduction To Ember.js 2014-07-08 by Jason Draper (Meetup) What is Ember? A framework for building ambitious web applications Opinionated - convention over configuration Most (all?) web apps have the same problems Separation of logic (view) from template Templates are autoloaded based on name DOM manipulation belongs in the view

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Triangle.rb Notes - Establishing Yourself

Establishing Yourself: A gem/application-driven method of building experience 2014-07-08 by Nathan Walls (Meetup) Why? avoid stagnation job or portfolio seeking keep skills fresh by working on things/problems not addressed by daily work Portfolio writing is a good exercise to clarify thinking blogging helps build community awareness stand out

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Triangle.rb Notes - JRuby

JRuby 2014-06-10 by Brandon Mathis and Hiro Asari (Meetup) Why? Access to Java libraries True concurrency (Rubinius also offers this) JVM Access To Java Libraries Super enterprise! Problems Keep offshore oil rigs floating Most Important Tools JRuby warble - packages JRuby project into *.war file Benefits (JVM) JVM improvements == JRuby

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RailsConf 2014 - Day 4

Part 4 of 4 How To Be a Boss without the B-S Jessie Link (Twitter) https://speakerdeck.com/madtypist https://github.com/madtypist Why you should consider management take your founded companay to next level new different challenges personal growth driver's seat impact on others new perspective What makes a

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RailsConf 2014 - Day 3

Part 3 of 4 Keynote Baratunde Thurston (Twitter, Company Twitter) http://www.cultivatedwit.com/ http://fuckyoucongress.com/ http://bit.ly/rubytunde Another fantastic keynote to watch again. Wrote "How To Be Black". - "If you don't buy this book, you're a racist." Front-End: Fun, Not Frustration

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RailsConf 2014 - Day 2

Part 2 of 4 Keynote: Cognitive Depletion (ConFreaks) Yehuda Katz (@wycats) Set defaults to combat cognitive depletion. Abstractions are leaky, but they allow one to start building on the 400th floor, instead of the 5th floor. By persistently building on top of abstractions, we can get much higher. Tricks That

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RailsConf 2014 - Day 1

Part 1 of 4 Keynote: Writing Software (ConFreaks) David Heinemeier Hansson (Twitter) Stop writing knee-jerk tests. Test-first development naturally leads to dependency injection. Dependency injection is the worst thing on the planet. You can make anything fast if it doesn't work. Ultra Light and Maintainable Rails Wizards Andy Maleh http:

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RailsConf 2014

I've posted all the notes I took from each session. I'll add a link to each talk on Confreaks as they become available. Day One Notes Day Two Notes Day Three Notes Day Four Notes I wasn't expecting to go to RailsConf this year, but my friend Jeffrey talked me

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Today I was in a Pry session, and I wanted to visualize something with Awesome Print. I didn't have Awesome Print installed in the version of Ruby I was using, so requiring it wasn't possible. However Ruby is a dynamic language, and it let me install the gem and require