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Re: Action Challenge! Name your audience | 30x500

Ernesto Tagwerker — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 10:30:28 -0000

Ruby on Rails Developers.

Re: Upgrade Rails From 5.0 to 5.1 - Ruby on Rails Upgrades

Ernesto Tagwerker — Thu, 17 Sep 2020 10:46:27 -0000

@Bob Kuo Good point, Bob! Thanks for reporting this! We will update it soon. :)

Re: New Challenge

Ernesto Tagwerker — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 14:49:40 -0000

Good luck with the new gig! Looking forward to seeing this new OSS project! :)

Re: How to Migrate From Capybara Webkit to Webdrivers - FastRuby.io | Rails Upgrade Service

Ernesto Tagwerker — Sat, 23 May 2020 10:02:04 -0000

Good point. There is value in having more than one driver in your application. I've found it very useful when debugging pesky flaky issues that only happen in the frontend (due to some JavaScript issue)

Re: Churn vs. Complexity vs. Code Coverage - FastRuby.io | Rails Upgrade Service

Ernesto Tagwerker — Wed, 13 May 2020 17:18:13 -0000

Really cool! Thanks for sharing!

Re: Why Is It Important to Upgrade Your Rails Application?

Ernesto Tagwerker — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 10:53:41 -0000

I think that one thing that this article is missing is the human factor: Who wants to work on a Rails 2.3 application these days? No one.

Developers want to work on cutting edge technology, so running an up to date Rails application will help managers hire developers. :)

Re: Three Awesome Libraries to Assess Code Quality in Ruby

Ernesto Tagwerker — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 11:50:16 -0000

This gave me an idea for a new article. Thank you! :)

Re: Three Awesome Libraries to Assess Code Quality in Ruby

Ernesto Tagwerker — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 23:01:09 -0000

Rubocop is a great tool, but how would you use it to tell you the quality of a codebase?

There will be times when you inherit an application that might have been following other style guides than the ones you like.

Re: Tips for Writing Fast Rails: Part 2 - Ruby on Rails Upgrades

Ernesto Tagwerker — Thu, 29 Aug 2019 16:30:41 -0000

Awesome! 🚀

Re: Tips for Writing Fast Rails: Part 2 - Ruby on Rails Upgrades

Ernesto Tagwerker — Thu, 29 Aug 2019 08:34:39 -0000

@Sergey Alekseev Thanks for starting `leaky-gems` in the first place! Stating the obvious here, but `bundler-leak` wouldn't have been possible without your database. ❤️

Re: Tips for Writing Fast Rails: Part 2 - Ruby on Rails Upgrades

Ernesto Tagwerker — Thu, 29 Aug 2019 08:31:12 -0000

Awesome, thank you! I believe it is now fixed in v0.1.0 :)

Re: Tips for Writing Fast Rails: Part 2 - Ruby on Rails Upgrades

Ernesto Tagwerker — Wed, 28 Aug 2019 08:54:02 -0000

@TonyCanuck It seems that there is an issue with false positives. I reported an issue over here: https://github.com/rubymem/...

It would be great if you could add some details to that issue.

Also, thanks for giving it a try! :)

Re: Andy Atkinson - Tips, tutorials, and interesting tech

Ernesto Tagwerker — Thu, 11 Jul 2019 17:28:27 -0000

One of my teammates recently wrote a few tips about this. I thought you might be interested :)

https://www.ombulabs.com/bl...

Re: Andy Atkinson - Tips, tutorials, and interesting tech

Ernesto Tagwerker — Mon, 27 May 2019 21:46:28 -0000

We recently started using https://www.donut.com to setup personal "coffee" appointments to talk about random personal stuff. I recommend it but it's hard to get people to buy into the idea.

Also, https://knowyourteam.com/ is another tool that encourages team members to get to know each other on a personal level. I highly recommend it!

Re: Let vs Instance Variables - The Lean Software Boutique

Ernesto Tagwerker — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 15:31:42 -0000

I don't think that is a good idea. You should try to not share any variables across scenarios. If you do end up sharing variables, they should be read-only variables (for example: all states and countries in the world)

Re: Three Useful Data Migration Patterns for Rails

Ernesto Tagwerker — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 12:07:45 -0000

No, I don't. A simple SQL query can be very dangerous.

There is a lot of value in having a data migration service class and a spec to test that it will do what you think it will do.

If you prefer the simple SQL query, you should be very careful.

Re: Refactoring With Design Patterns - the Template Pattern - The Lean Software Boutique

Ernesto Tagwerker — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 09:11:47 -0000

This is the best book about design patterns. We love love love GoF! It is required reading for all software engineers at Ombu Labs. 💯

Re: Upgrade Rails From 4.2 to 5.0 - The Lean Software Boutique

Ernesto Tagwerker — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 09:23:34 -0000

@Cory McDonald Good idea! Thanks for your feedback!

Re: Become A Better Programmer By Making It Hard To Write Bad Code In Ruby

Ernesto Tagwerker — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 16:48:05 -0000

I think it's a good idea to have both in place. 👍

Re: Become A Better Programmer By Making It Hard To Write Bad Code In Ruby

Ernesto Tagwerker — Wed, 24 Jan 2018 12:19:40 -0000

Great article! You can combine overcommit + rubocop to make sure that you don't push commits that have problems. I highly recommend it.

Re: Upgrade Rails From 3.2 to 4.0 - The Lean Software Boutique

Ernesto Tagwerker — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 09:01:56 -0000

That would be awesome! As long as you include a link to the original everything is fine.

Re: Let vs Instance Variables - The Lean Software Boutique

Ernesto Tagwerker — Thu, 09 Nov 2017 16:54:05 -0000

Your log file should be in `path/to/app/log/test.log`

If the file is too large to open, you might want to delete it and run your tests again. `test.log` doesn't get truncated every time you run a test, so it will become a huge file if you run a lot of tests.

Re: Present? Vs Any? Vs Exists? - The Lean Software Boutique

Ernesto Tagwerker — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 08:05:15 -0000

There are some cases where `present?` and `any?` still make sense. For example, if you already loaded the records into memory you should use `present?` or `any?`

Re: Ruby 2.4 adds infinite? and finite? methods to Numeric

Ernesto Tagwerker — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 09:22:03 -0000

Well, but then you'd have to make two method calls to find out if the result is negative infinity.

Re: Ruby 2.4 adds infinite? and finite? methods to Numeric

Ernesto Tagwerker — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 09:20:23 -0000

Great question! I'm not sure why they decided to implement it like this.