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139: Red, Green, Refactor (Alex Clark & Sean Doyle)
Derek is joined by coworker Sean Doyle and Codecademy’s Alex Clark to discuss the process of test-driven development and the development of a new TDD…
8 years, 3 months ago
138: I Don't Know How the World Works Anymore
We chat about how shared global state in tests can cause you to doubt foundational truths of the universe, some issues with Rails system tests, and r…
8 years, 3 months ago
137: What's Up, Docs
Who should library documentation be written for? How do you, as an author, know what your users will need to know? Should you have long form guides i…
8 years, 3 months ago
136: Propagating Conspiracy Theories
Amanda joins Derek to discuss KotlinConf, powerful IDEs, our Ralphapalooza hackathon, and the React Native experience from a native mobile developer'…
8 years, 4 months ago
135: A Series of Unfortunate Examples
We discuss a possible ActiveRecord bug Derek encountered and explore the ambiguity of SQL formatting best practices.
thoughtbot podcast swag Working…8 years, 4 months ago
134: Fastributes
We share our favorite talks from RubyConf and discuss how Sean has made ActiveRecord attributes allocation significantly faster with Rust.
Saving Ru…8 years, 4 months ago
133: A Very Special Bike Shed
Sean is on to a significant ActiveRecord optimization using an extension written in Rust and Derek shares an overdue thanks to an excellent manager.
…8 years, 5 months ago
132: What Went Well?
We discuss patterns and anti-patterns encountered in agile retrospectives and revisit a favorite topic: form objects.
Running a Retrospective Scrum …8 years, 5 months ago
131: Nouns For Verbs Sake
We briefly discuss the renaming of factory_girl to factory_bot before diving in to the visitor pattern; what is it, and what are its inherent tradeof…
8 years, 5 months ago
130: I Grew Up in Balloons
Is Database Cleaner necessary anymore? Tune in for our exciting play-by-play reporting on that issue and stick around for chatter on personal default…
8 years, 5 months ago