Everyday Rails 2024-02-06T14:44:51+00:00 https://everydayrails.com/ Aaron Sumner aaron@everydayrails.com New version of Testing with RSpec book for 2024! 2024-02-06T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.everydayrails.com/2024/02/06/rspec-book-announcement-rails-7-1 A new edition is in the works, with coverage on the latest versions of Rails, Ruby, and RSpec, and more. Using devcontainers in GitHub Actions CI workflows 2024-01-14T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.everydayrails.com/2024/01/14/github-actions-devcontainer-ci It's simpler than ever to wire CI pipelines, thanks to devcontainers. Here's how I run Rails test suites these days in GitHub workflows. Write resilient tests with matchers that take other matchers 2023-12-07T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.everydayrails.com/2023/12/07/rspec-resilient-matchers Here's a short, neat trick to help save time when updating RSpec specs to reflect new test data. A few things I've learned to simplify working in dev containers 2023-09-05T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.everydayrails.com/2023/09/05/dev-containers-best-practices I'm still learning as I go, but here are some tidbits I've learned so far about using dev containers for most of my software projects these days. Test-driven development in the age of artificial intelligence 2023-06-26T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.everydayrails.com/2023/06/26/rails-tdd-copilot-chatgpt How ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, and TDD made me a professional Go programmer in less than an hour. Kind of. Deprecating code in a Rails application 2021-07-31T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.everydayrails.com/2021/07/31/rails-custom-deprecation-warnings Here's how to add good deprecation warnings to your Rails applications, and why it might be a good idea. Automatic code review with Pronto and GitHub Actions 2021-05-29T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.everydayrails.com/2021/05/29/pronto-github-actions-code-quality Nobody likes to be the one to pick through your pull request for style guide and security violations. Here's how to ask robots to do the work for you, automatically! Working around the mimemagic issue in my RSpec testing book 2021-04-05T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.everydayrails.com/2021/04/05/rspec-tutorial-mimemagic-fix The book's sample source no longer installs due to a dependency change. Here's how to fix it. Using containers as a Rails development environment, part 4: Composing services 2021-03-14T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.everydayrails.com/2021/03/14/docker-devcontainer-series-docker-compose Before integrating additional services into a container-based development environment, we need to start thinking about the app as a collection of services. Here's how to begin that process. Using containers as a Rails development environment, part 3: SQLite databases 2021-03-07T00:00:00+00:00 http://www.everydayrails.com/2021/03/07/docker-devcontainer-series-database-sqlite You can't get very far with a Rails application without a database. Let's explore our options for adding one in a container.