In this episode of Rails Refactoring Podcast, Wiktor and Marcin are discussing new Frontend-Friendly Rails book. It tells about improving frontend infrastructure provided by Rails. We are covering few topics from the book:
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Robert Pankowecki & Marcin Grzywaczewski in the fifth episode of the podcast. In this episode we discuss the good and bad sides of React.JS. We talk how and why to introduce it into legacy codebase.
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Andrzej Krzywda & Adam Hawkins in the fourth episode of the podcast. In this episode we discuss Adam's latest blogpost (see it in shownotes links) about technical and mindset issues of Ruby community.
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Andrzej Krzywda & Markus Schirp in the third episode of the podcast. We are talking mostly about the problem of test coverage. We're discussing why the popular tools (rcov and simplecov) may give you a false sense of security and coverage. We're also discussing some more advanced things, like:
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Andrzej Krzywda & Robert Pankowecki in the second episode of the podcast. We are talking mostly about The Rails Way. Good side, bad side of it and consequences. We also talk what brought us into Rails, how we feel about and what's in the DNA of the community. Is it testing? Or hate for Java?
We are also talking about the "Fearless Refactoring: Rails Controllers" book. The book contains a full description of The Next Way (as opposed to The Rails Way) techniques that can be gradully mixed into your Rails applications.
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Andrzej Krzywda & Robert Pankowecki in first episode of the podcast. We are talking about migrating applications from ruby 1.9 to 2.1 and using gems for form and service objects.
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