Archive - Naming Things

Little factories

You’ve probably used Rails fixtures or factory_bot to set up an object for testing purposes. But this can be too much when you’re just testing a simple…

May 5, 2023 •

January 2023

Miscellaneous updates

Hey everyone, it’s been a while since I wrote anything here, so here’s a quick update on a few things I’ve got going on: I left Twitter I’ve been on…

Jan 24, 2023 •

December 2022

In memory of Chris Seaton

I could hardly breathe when I read Chris Seaton’s final tweets last Saturday. He said he wanted to take a “permanent rest”, and my brain desperately…

Dec 10, 2022 •

November 2022

Mixing HTML attributes in Ruby

Hey 👋 It’s been a minute since we did one of these Naming Things episodes but I’m trying to get back into it again. This week, Kasper and I paired on…

Nov 3, 2022 •

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Kasper Timm Hansen

1:41:50

October 2022

Custom exception inheritance

It’s a good idea to define custom exception classes in Ruby libraries to allow users to match against specific library exceptions. For example, if you…

Oct 25, 2022 •

Magic template methods

Part of the interface for Phlex views is that they define an instance method for the template. The template method is called when rendering a view to…

Oct 21, 2022 •

September 2022

Ruby is a beautiful language for writing views

A couple of months ago, I was made redundant from my job at Shopify. This was a huge surprise to me and my colleagues and especially my new manager (I…

Sep 21, 2022 •

July 2022

Acidic Job awaited steps

Joel and Stephen work on a feature in Acidic Job that lets you configure certain steps to await other steps.

Jul 17, 2022 •

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Stephen Margheim

1:43:37

Joel and Kasper start building a group event scheduling app from rails new.

Jul 10, 2022 •

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Kasper Timm Hansen

53:14

June 2022

A common refactoring in object-oriented programming is to take a complex method or set of methods and extract a new class from them. These classes …

Jun 20, 2022 •

Phil Karlton once said, “there are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.” I don’t remember where I first read…

Jun 18, 2022 •

Coming soon, Naming Things is a video show where we pair on an interesting software problem for an hour or so once a week. We could be tracking down a…

Jun 13, 2022 •

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Kasper Timm Hansen

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