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The Bike Shed

On The Bike Shed, hosts Joël Quenneville and Stephanie Minn discuss development experiences and challenges at thoughtbot with Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, and whatever else is drawing their attention, adm... Read more

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70: Make Small Things (Sandi Metz)

70: Make Small Things (Sandi Metz)

Sandi Metz joins us live from RailsConf to talk about the rules, the trouble with naming things, making the right kinds ... Read more

6 Jul 2016

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10: I Don't Get Functional Programming

10: I Don't Get Functional Programming

Pat Brisbin joins Derek to discuss the many advantages of Haskell programming. note: at 27:01 Pat says "referential inte... Read more

20 Mar 2015

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151: Scheming About Schema

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14: An Acceptable Level of Hassle (David Heinemeier Hansson)

14: An Acceptable Level of Hassle (David Heinemeier Hansson)

This week, we're joined by DHH and discuss microservices, monoliths, shared abstractions, and the fate of Action Cable. ... Read more

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129: You Wanna Talk About GraphQL?

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79: Comments in Your Queries

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222: That Eureka Moment

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220: Adequately Fun

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150: I Fight For the Users

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5: Rails is Not Your Architecture

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Derek and Sean discuss various ways of taking the Rails out of your Ruby on Rails application, what folder to put your f... Read more

31 Dec 2014

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125: Less Bad Than Expected

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We share and discuss some user feedback on fakes and mocks, discuss the benefits and drawbacks to FactoryGirl and share ... Read more

28 Sep 2017

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3: Flipping the Script

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204: I Don't Like Rest

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166: Are Services the New Rewrite?

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