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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 [http://brandonmathis.me/] (meetup [https://www.meetup.com/raleighrb/events/236355556/]) History Rails 1 Rails 2 * Tiobe language popularity ranking [http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/] * EnvyLabs "commercials" * They did a whole series of "Rails Versus xxx", which might

Triangle.rb Notes - Ten Gems To Know About

Ten Gems To Know About 2016-07-12 by Brandon Mathis [http://brandonmathis.me/] (Meetup [http://www.meetup.com/raleighrb/events/224075188/]) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0. pry [https://rubygems.org/gems/pry] 1. pry-byebug [https://rubygems.org/gems/pry-byebug] (also byebug [https://rubygems.org/gems/byebug]) 2. awesome_print [https://rubygems.org/gems/awesome_

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 used

Triangle.rb Notes - Nothing Is Something

http://www.meetup.com/raleighrb/events/224075188/ 2015-08-11 by Sandi Metz [http://www.sandimetz.com/] (video of the same talk at RailsConf [http://confreaks.tv/videos/railsconf2015-nothing-is-something]) * Smalltalk infected * Condition adverse * Message sending * Abstraction seeking Bunch of code slides here... Ruby has special syntax for booleans Conditions breed! Null Object

Triangle.rb Notes - Code Katas

Code Katas: Growing Through Deliberate Practice 2015-04-14 by Cory Foy [http://blog.coryfoy.com/] (Meetup [http://www.meetup.com/raleighrb/events/221443562/]) (blog post [http://blog.coryfoy.com/2015/04/slides-and-code-kata-recording-from-triangle-rb/] ) Takeaways * Test First * Simple Solution * Judicious Refactoring * Elegance Emerged Four Rules Of Simple Design [http://agileinaflash.blogspot.com/2009/

Triangle.rb Notes - RSpec

Develop An RSpec Test Suite (Choose Your Own Test Adventure) 2015-02-10 by Michael Stalker [https://twitter.com/michaelstalker] (Meetup [http://www.meetup.com/raleighrb/events/220007543/]) 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

Triangle.rb Notes - Ember

Introduction To Ember.js [http://emberjs.com/] 2014-07-08 by Jason Draper [https://twitter.com/drapergeek] (Meetup [http://www.meetup.com/raleighrb/events/201863062/]) 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)

Triangle.rb Notes - Establishing Yourself

Establishing Yourself: A gem/application-driven method of building experience 2014-07-08 by Nathan Walls [http://wallscorp.us/] (Meetup [http://www.meetup.com/raleighrb/events/191110132/]) 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

Triangle.rb Notes - JRuby

JRuby [http://www.jruby.org/] 2014-06-10 by Brandon Mathis [http://brandonmathis.me/] and Hiro Asari [https://twitter.com/hiro_asari] (Meetup [http://www.meetup.com/raleighrb/events/184367522/]) Why? * Access to Java libraries * True concurrency (Rubinius [http://rubini.us/] also offers this) * JVM Access To Java Libraries * Super enterprise! Problems

RailsConf 2014 - Day 4

Part 4 of 4 [https://blog.ravinggenius.com/2014/04/22/railsconf-2014/] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How To Be a Boss without the B-S [http://www.railsconf.com/program#prop_197] Jessie Link (Twitter [https://twitter.com/mad_typis]) https://speakerdeck.com/madtypist https://github.com/madtypist Why you should consider management * take

RailsConf 2014 - Day 3

Part 3 of 4 [https://blog.ravinggenius.com/2014/04/22/railsconf-2014/] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keynote Baratunde Thurston (Twitter [https://twitter.com/baratunde], Company Twitter [https://twitter.com/cultivatedwit]) http://www.cultivatedwit.com/ http://fuckyoucongress.com/ http://bit.ly/rubytunde Another fantastic keynote to watch again. Wrote "How To Be Black". -

RailsConf 2014 - Day 2

Part 2 of 4 [https://blog.ravinggenius.com/2014/04/22/railsconf-2014/] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keynote: Cognitive Depletion (ConFreaks [http://www.confreaks.com/videos/3336-railsconf-keynote-what-happens-to-everyone-when-everyone-learns-to-code] ) 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

RailsConf 2014 - Day 1

Part 1 of 4 [https://blog.ravinggenius.com/2014/04/22/railsconf-2014/] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keynote: Writing Software (ConFreaks [http://www.confreaks.com/videos/3315-railsconf-keynote]) David Heinemeier Hansson (Twitter [https://twitter.com/dhh]) Stop writing knee-jerk tests. Test-first development naturally leads to dependency injection. Dependency injection is the worst thing on the

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. 0. Day One Notes [https://blog.ravinggenius.com/2014/04/22/railsconf-2014-day-1/] 1. Day Two Notes [https://blog.ravinggenius.com/2014/04/23/railsconf-2014-day-2/] 2. Day Three

Ruby

Today I was in a Pry [http://pryrepl.org/] session, and I wanted to visualize something with Awesome Print [https://rubygems.org/gems/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,