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Little factories
Sometimes factory_bot is overkill
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Joel Drapper
January 2023
Miscellaneous updates
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Joel Drapper
December 2022
In memory of Chris Seaton
Adventures in software design with Joel Drapper.
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Joel Drapper
October 2022
Custom exception inheritance
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Joel Drapper
Magic template methods
Using meta-programming to handle method name conflicts in Ruby
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Joel Drapper
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September 2022
Ruby is a beautiful language for writing views
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Joel Drapper
June 2022
Sitting Ducks
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 …
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Joel Drapper
Naming Things
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Joel Drapper
March 2022
Introducing Literal Enums in Ruby
An object-oriented enum pattern for Ruby and Rails with literal-style definition syntax.
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Joel Drapper
The right abstraction
And why the Sandi Metz quote is so often misapplied.
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Joel Drapper
Introducing ActionState for Rails
Define Rails model scopes and predicates with the same code.
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Joel Drapper
Reinventing the wheel
It’s not always a terrible idea.
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Joel Drapper
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