How to relax your Ruby version specification in your Gemfile
Have you ever run into this error? Your Ruby version is 2.6.1, but your Gemfile specified 2.6.3 Annoying, right? You know your Ruby version is new enough to run this…
Test-Driven Re-implementation with Josh Thompson
Yesterday Josh Thompson, one of my Rubber Duck Session clients, proposed a novel idea for deliberately practicing coding skills: take a popular open-source project with a good test suite, delete…
Faking Method Inputs with OpenStruct feat. Kerri Miller
During my RubyTapas script review with upcoming guest chef Kerri Miller, we spent some time refactoring a method toward lower complexity. In the process we needed to isolate it from…
Enough With the Service Objects Already
A critique of the emerging advice to encapsulate business domain actions in “Service Objects”.
Riffing on `interpose` implementations in Ruby
Implementing a new Ruby Enumerable method turns into an exploration of refinements, enumerators, RSpec block testing, & more…
Preserving session with Mechanize
A write-up of a tricky aspect of saving Mechanize agent cookies.
What it’s like to come back to a Ruby project after 6 months
The hacker sits down. It’s been a long time since he worked on this project, so he figures he should probably make sure the tests are passing first.
Great article on Data Objects by @pcreux
This self-documentation is a great gift for other developers (and your future-self). A quick look at the Data Object definition tells us what attributes are available. No need to go…
Kata and Analysis by Jim Weirich
Towards the end of this video there’s a terrific discussion of the point at which DRYing out the code any further would just make it harder to understand. I was…