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Little factories
You’ve probably used Rails fixtures or factory_bot to set up an object for testing purposes.
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Joel Drapper

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:
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Joel Drapper

December 2022

In memory of Chris Seaton
I could hardly breathe when I read Chris Seaton’s final tweets last Saturday.
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Joel Drapper

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.
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Joel Drapper
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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.
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Joel Drapper
Magic template methods
Part of the interface for Phlex views is that they define an instance method for the template.
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Joel Drapper

September 2022

Ruby is a beautiful language for writing views
A couple of months ago, I was made redundant from my job at Shopify.
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Joel Drapper

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.
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Joel Drapper
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Stephen Margheim
1:43:37
rails new
Joel and Kasper start building a group event scheduling app from rails new.
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Joel Drapper
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Kasper Timm Hansen
53:14

June 2022

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