I previously wrote about Sandi Metz’ proposed rules. I had the pleasure of hearing her talk about them last week at the monthly SDRuby meeting.

Recently I came across a spec that didn’t seem to be executing the assertion block passed in to the raise_error expectation. Leaving the bare essentials for the example:

I love DelayedJob. It’s my go-to-gem for background processing in Rails, mainly because it works with whatever data store your project already has in place. No need to bring a different dependency just for background processing. However, using Delayed::Worker in threads is problematic.

Perfect practice makes perfect

I recently read a blog post recently about Conway’s Game Of Life: Since I had not written an implementation myself, I decided to give it a go.