Ruby

We wrote a gem! It’s called good_migrations and we recommend you add it to all of your Ruby on Rails projects and subsequently forget about it. Just do it. There’s no reason we can see not to blindly copy-paste this command right now:

Today I’m excited to announce that I’ve released version 1.0 of my Concurrent Ruby gem! One of the reasons I came to work at Test Double is the dedication and passion the company has for open source.

A single test This weekend I was reminded how complex (and in some cases, convoluted) typical test setup is for Rails applications. The steps below were all necessary in my case, but please don’t read into this list any criticisms of these tools’ excellent open source maintainers.

ActiveRecord migrations are a killer feature of Ruby on Rails. The feature is very well-implemented, it’s easy to use, and countless teams have benefited from it. Before Rails, most teams I encountered were in the habit of making incredibly error-prone ad hoc changes to each of their application’s databases.