Posts tagged "ruby"

Important information about our Elixir and Ruby Open Source projects

You may have heard that Nubank has acqui-hired Plataformatec. Plataformatec has been working with Nubank over the past few months and Nubank saw great value on the practices and expertise shown by our teams. According to Nubank leaders, Plataformatec consultants have provided restructured rituals and new working agreements to its teams, and also brought improvements … »

Como evitar silos de conhecimento na sua codebase e levar seus code reviews para o próximo nível

Priorização é sempre algo complicado, não é mesmo? O tempo está sempre contra a gente, e as vezes precisamos fazer escolhas difíceis sobre onde devemos focar a nossa atenção e o nosso esforço. Com code reviews não é diferente. Por isso é muito importante traçar uma estratégia para investir seu tempo de revisão de maneira … »

Using the test pyramid to have better feedback from your test suite

In this blog post, I’ll explain the problem of developers spending too much time trying to discover a problem in a failing test suite. A cause of this issue may be the lack of a good test feedback. A good feedback is one that happens fast with a helpful message. To illustrate this problem, consider … »

Highlights of RubyConf Brazil 2016

Last week happened the biggest Ruby-related conference in Latin America, RubyConf Brazil. Our team was present in this edition, which by the way, was particularly interesting, therefore I’d like to share some highlights. The first highlight comes from the night before the event. We went to a bar with some conference speakers. It was really … »

Keeping your Ruby on Rails app easy to update

The Rails 5 release candidate is out, bringing new improvements that will make your life as a developer easier. Probably you are excited to update your application to the new major Rails release, but you may have some concerns. It is normal, updating your application to fit the new version may bring an unknown number … »

Experimenting with explicit contracts with Ruby

A few months back, José Valim started a conversation on overusing mocks and coupling between components. That made me interested on revisiting how I design my code and it has changed my approach to testing a bit in one of our current Ruby projects. A Tale of Two Adapters Back in November, I worked on … »