Welcome to the
Test Double blog.
What we're writing:
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Best Interview Process. Ever. Actually.
Newly minted Double Agent Nichol Alexander shares an outside perspective on Test Double’s senior software engineer interview process. -
There's No Such Thing as a Free Gem
If you had to connect your app to an OAuth provider, when would you rely on a library and when would you code it yourself? Could you explain your reasoning? Using OAuth log in to Twitter in Ruby on Rails as an example, let's walk through the decision to roll our own implementation and how to build it ourselves with working code samples. -
How to completely uninstall and reinstall Homebrew Postgres
Is Postgres erroring with "could not read block 39" or "bad address"? If you installed Postgres via Homebrew on a Mac, here's the quickest way to wipe the slate clean with a fresh install -
Adding Disallowed Deprecations to Rails 6.1
Eliminating deprecation warnings is an important part of the Rails upgrade process. Disallowed Deprecations in Rails 6.1 provides a way to ensure deprecations don't get reintroduced once they've been removed from your codebase. -
Why functional?
Let's take a step back and talk about why it is worth your time to learn to write code with a functional mindset. The internet is full of information about how to write functionally, but without knowledge of what problems is solves, functional patterns are likely to look intimidating, so we don't bother, or worse, we use these patterns out of context.
