Daniel Grieve

@jeremysmithco I think your rule of thumb is good 👍 My rule of thumb along these lines is don’t cause surprises. A rails dev would expect to be able to call that without introducing other objects (or whatever is triggering the exception)

@dnlgrv Right! (Should have clarified.)

I've never thought of this as a good rule of thumb, but it just occurred to me, and I'm wondering if it's controversial at all? For every ActiveRecord model in your Rails app, you should be able to call `.new.valid?` on it without raising any exceptions.

@excid3 Ahh yes. Are they anything like ours where they lie about things? There's no way she ate a plate full of carrots and broccoli... even if they logged it on the app. I need evidence.

@dnlgrv Second kiddo's first day at daycare!

No thank you.

@jeremysmithco @strzibnyj Enter a complex enough code base and those mystery guests are likely to affect what you’re testing. Fixtures somewhat simulate the real application (users with real data). A clean DB for every test is good (quick) for testing but unrealistic.

@strzibnyj To me, this is much preferred. I'd rather each test be self-contained, building up only the set pieces necessary, with as few "mystery guests" from outside as possible. I don't want to open 4 fixture files to trace an object graph, just to understand a single test's setup.

The hidden cost of fixtures is the time spent trying to understand the ones you didn't create (or don't remember). Dropping into a test with extensive fixtures is like trying to make sense out of a scene from Harry Potter book 5, without the worldbuilding of the previous 4.

@jeremysmithco 100% Building a good fixture set is a skill. Factories don’t help with these scenarios much either mind you (unless you happen to find the 1 test that sets up your exact scenario). Still lots of improvements to make on both sides

@dnlgrv But I imagine it gets harder when you have a couple dozen ways you need to represent and test an order in the system, and you can't easily discover which one in the UI matches which named fixture.

@adamwathan And you don’t even have a dog!

Energy to engage in tech debates online is inversely proportional to the amount of time you spend chasing your kids around trying to get them to spit out dog food. TL;DR: Have kids.

@nateberkopec Can we add salary in there too? No need to waste everyone's time by hiding it.

We should make it illegal to start a software job posting with anything other than: Location: (US | Worldwide | OTHER_COUNTRY) (Remote | In-Office)

@jeremysmithco It actually messed up a lot of things for us like analytics events being sent from controllers. Might be an “us” issue though. We had to disable it entirely

I gotta say, I'm not a fan of Turbo Prefetch as a way of improving performance. Reminds me too much of Hugh Jackman's magic trick in The Prestige. youtube.com/watch?v=C4Rrj5…

I know what they mean, but the wording... I paid a *lot* of f-ing tax.

@nateberkopec I'm in as long as that 50% cash comes in a big duffel bag with $$$ on the side.

In case you’re wondering what the market for top level Rails talent is like. Email from a recruiter.

@jnunemaker Yeah, I spent way too long trying to long press on the screen while sat in my car before thinking it would be something I’d do on my phone.

@dnlgrv Search carplay from settings then you can tap the vehicle and rearrange.

I rearranged my CarPlay icons based on most used. And it feels great. The little things like this add up in life. Think “what is a paper cut I can remove?“ today.

@nateberkopec My code already barely compiles and I didn’t even use any AI - have I been living in the future this whole time?

all I can see in the future is slop code will no longer be beautiful, it will only (barely) compile

How I can tell they didn't look: "Hey I looked at your website and it's got a great design" No, no it doesn't.

@ccarella Not quite the same but compare watching live/scheduled TV to on-demand. There are times for both.

Is it safe yet? Can I get back to work now please? #ruby

@_swanson that'll do it! We run a ~hourly cypress based "integration test" outside of our main app that checks the important flows for staging/production just in case we break something by accident. A bit overkill but has proved useful!

@dnlgrv less tricky, i just deleted something that was used on those pages but i never visit them in dev

today I messed up 😅