
That’s So Fetch
It’s time for another dip into the RubyTapas archives! In this third and last episode on Ruby’s #fetch family of methods, now free to all, we get into some advanced…
It’s time for another dip into the RubyTapas archives! In this third and last episode on Ruby’s #fetch family of methods, now free to all, we get into some advanced…
Here’s another freebie from the deep RubyTapas stacks. This one is about a truth of object modeling that we don’t often talk about: not every object needs to have state….
Here’s another classic from the early days of RubyTapas. Originally published as Episode #11 in October 2012, it’s a complement to the episode on using fetch as an assertion. This…
Periodically I take episodes from the RubyTapas archives and publish them for free. This episode from October 2012 is about symbol literals, and how you can use alternative quoting syntax…
The problem: we wanted to get Rails system tests running using a browser on our development machines.
Selenium! Capybara! Webdriver! chromedriver! …there are a LOT of moving parts in Rails system tests. Let’s break it down, layer by layer.
Some reflections on the UNIX command-line model, and where it falls short.
In which I argue that code is less about solving problems than about creating leverage.
When I was a child, I lived with my parents in the woods. We had an old-fashioned hand-dug well, the kind from storybooks that looks like a big hole in…