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The Bike Shed

On The Bike Shed, hosts Joël Quenneville, Sally Hall, and Aji Slater discuss development experiences and challenges at thoughtbot with Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, and whatever else is drawing their attention, admiration, or ire this week.

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39:03

131: Nouns For Verbs Sake

The Bike Shed ·

2017/11/08

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 tradeoffs. factory_bot visitor pattern Visitor pattern and double dispatch in ruby Sean drives for Lyft

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33:49

130: I Grew Up in Balloons

The Bike Shed ·

2017/11/03

Is Database Cleaner necessary anymore? Tune in for our exciting play-by-play reporting on that issue and stick around for chatter on personal defaults for new Rails applications. Integrate with ActionDispatch::SystemTest Database Cleaner RSpec 3.7 has been released! Bundler template moves bins to exe Suspenders Exclude all 4xx Rails errors from Sentry reporting Balloon Fiesta

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47:03

129: You Wanna Talk About GraphQL?

The Bike Shed ·

2017/10/27

We discuss an issue in the interaction between Rails, Chrome, and the HTTP referrer policy before Derek shares his love for GraphQL. Referrer-Policy Origin header Rails/Chrome/no-referrer issue GraphQL GraphQL-Ruby GraphQL-Batch Sangria Elixir 1.6 Formatter

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45:46

128: And Now for My Next Trick!

The Bike Shed ·

2017/10/19

We discuss strategies for fighting back against project management overhead, refactoring workflows, and on-call rotations. Make the change easy, then make the easy change. Refactor in a Branch Chaos Monkey What languages support anonymous union types?

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52:42

127: Bike Shed: Discovery

The Bike Shed ·

2017/10/13

We discuss Bundler warning us to update to a prerelease version and other recent annoyances with our favorite dependency manager. We also wonder what GitHub diff stats can tell you about your contributions to a project and when they might be a smell. Stick around post credits for some spoiler-filled chatter about the first couple episodes of Star Trek: Discovery. SpaceX Moon Base SpaceX Travel RubyConf talk involving Kerbal Space Program Bundler warns users to install pre-release

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35:25

126: Speaking of Compilers...

The Bike Shed ·

2017/10/05

We discuss a major change to Diesel's insert statements in advance of its 1.0 release and reexamine Contracts.ruby after Derek spends some time with it in use. Sputnik lamp Contracts.ruby Don't use exceptions for flow control Crystal Matz doesn't like current proposals for types in Ruby

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44:19

125: Less Bad Than Expected

The Bike Shed ·

2017/09/28

We share and discuss some user feedback on fakes and mocks, discuss the benefits and drawbacks to FactoryGirl and share exasperation over the handling of the Equifax data breach. Stripe Mock Web Valve Seeding Faker Speed Up Tests by Selectively Avoiding Factory Girl Why the Equifax breach is very possibly the worst leak of personal info ever Credit Freeze FAQs

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41:56

124: Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope.

The Bike Shed ·

2017/09/20

We go inside the RubyConf CFP review process before turning our attention to questions about the impact of code review. Stick around post credits for some spoiler-filled, lukewarm Game of Thrones takes. What Your Conference Proposal is Missing by Sarah Mei Add a configuration option to cause tests to fail if they write stderr or stdout Survivorship Bias Cultivating a Code Review Culture by Derek Goldilocks and the Three Code Reviews by Vaidehi Joshi

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33:45

123: Too Many Parameters

The Bike Shed ·

2017/09/13

Derek and Sean discuss the troubles encountered when code reuse is a goal above all others and strategies to have your reusable cake and eat it too. 16 positional arguments Ruby's keyword arguments Rails Param Stronger Params Meditations on a Class Method Tell Don't Ask Get a Whiff of This by Sandi Metz

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41:04

122: Name That Smell

The Bike Shed ·

2017/09/05

Derek and Sean discuss going from zero to code on new projects, writing tests that deal with external services, and a tricky floating point precision bug Sean encountered in ActiveRecord. The thoughtbot laptop script bin/setup VCR Mystery Guest How to Stub External Services in Tests Fake Stripe Breaking change in how #round works

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43:47

121: The Bike Log (Jerod Santo)

The Bike Shed ·

2017/08/21

The Changelog's Jerod Santo joins the show to talk finding time for, sustaining, and funding open source development. Jerod Santo The Changelog Request for Commits Open Collective Apple Machine Learning Journal Ryan Bigg Quits Open Source Maintenance Kill Your Inner Code Monkey by Patrick McKenzie

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36:23

120: Free Apples

The Bike Shed ·

2017/08/03

We do some follow-up on open source fundraising and discuss some interesting patterns in Derek's new client project. Sean is back from leave Patronizing Open Source by Devon C. Estes thoughtbot is hiring webpack on Open Collective How to Charge for your Open Source IBM uses JSLint for evil Notarize is hiring Contracts.ruby methodadded countercache called twice with after_create callback “Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”

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51:23

119: Questions Are For the Weak (Caleb Thompson &...

The Bike Shed ·

2017/07/26

Sean and Derek are joined by Caleb Thompson and Matthew Mongeau for our annual live episode to discuss lessons learned from past projects, and speaking at conferences. Video Version myglu.com (The project being discussed) Sandi Metz' Rules for Developers Facade pattern Diesel's association API has_many The foreigner gem Goose talks about designing a programming language Service Objects Monban Why you shouldn't roll your own authentication Please send Caleb sunglasses. Rails 5.1 did ship while we

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45:22

118: Nonsense In, Nonsense Out

The Bike Shed ·

2017/07/18

We discuss the economics of remote work, ActionDispatch::SystemTest in RSpec, and the use of Patreon on open source projects. Robin Sparkles ActiveRecord::Base.reload ActiveRecord::Base.becomes RSpec integration with ActionDispatch::SystemTest Ruby Together

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46:04

117: S.A.L.T. (Justin Searls)

The Bike Shed ·

2017/07/10

We chat with Justin Searls about testing, programmer personality types, programming communities, and putting spreadsheets on the Internet. Justin Searls Justin’s RailsConf Keynote My Favorite Way to TDD by Justin Searls Searls-Briggs Type Indicator Test Double Deep Work

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36:17

116: A More "WALL-E" Future

The Bike Shed ·

2017/06/28

Amanda is joined by SF thoughtbot developers Tony, Josh, & Greg to discuss learning new languages (and whether developers should do that in their free time), machine learning, the future of AR/VR, and tech that strives to make a social difference. Twitter Thread Machine Learning in Ruby Resources Apple Machine Learning Resources Chariot on TechCrunch Safecast- Open Environmental Data Contribute to Safecast Ask Tia Heat Seek

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42:57

115: I Don't Need Another Google Hangout (Cecy Correa)

The Bike Shed ·

2017/06/22

We talk with Cecy Correa about how to hire and get hired. Cecy Correa Girl Develop It Austin on Rails Why We’ve Stopped Saying “Culture Fit” — and What We’re Saying Instead Jobs at Return Path Jobs at thoughtbot

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39:15

114: Reasonably Thread Safe

The Bike Shed ·

2017/06/16

We discuss a tiny DOS caused when upgrading thoughtbot.com to Rails 5.1 and how Rails could better surface warnings that only occur in your production configuration. We also get an update on multi-table joins in Rust. Meaningful schema diffs in Rails 5.1 HSTS Firesheep Use a secure session cookie for new installs pshtt Observatory by Mozilla Encrypted secrets in Rails 5.1 PhantomJS maintainer steps down Sean solves his problem: Multi-tabls joins in Rust

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29:07

113: Have You Considered Rust? (Matt Casper)

The Bike Shed ·

2017/06/09

We talk to Matt Casper about contributing to Diesel, Rust's ecosystem, and the next big thing. Matt Casper Matt’s Diesel’s Diesel contributions The Rust Book DHH’s RailsConf Keynote Rocket Clap Justin Searls’ RailsConf Keynote Procore Jobs

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33:21

112: Lifecycles Are Dead, Long Live Lifecycles!

The Bike Shed ·

2017/06/01

Amanda joins Sean to discuss all the Android news to come out of Google I/O, Kotlin as a "first class language", and features of Android "O"! I/O '17 Recap JetBrains Android Studio Android Architecture Components Joda-Time Library Anko

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