The Bike Shed

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129: You Wanna Talk About GraphQL? Oct 27, 2017

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We discuss an issue in the interaction between Rails, Chrome, and the HTTP referrer policy before Derek shares his love for GraphQL.

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128: And Now for My Next Trick! Oct 19, 2017

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We discuss strategies for fighting back against project management overhead, refactoring workflows, and on-call rotations.

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127: Bike Shed: Discovery Oct 13, 2017

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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.

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126: Speaking of Compilers... Oct 05, 2017

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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.

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125: Less Bad Than Expected Sep 28, 2017

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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.

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124: Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Sep 20, 2017

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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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123: Too Many Parameters Sep 13, 2017

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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.

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122: Name That Smell Sep 05, 2017

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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.