by support@ryatta.com | Mar 9, 2015 | Development, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Workshops
With the advent of Extreme Programming, Agile methodologies and Test-Driven Development (TDD) has come a newfound, almost reverent, respect for testing. Testing used to be an afterthought – so separated from the software development process that it was relegated...
by support@ryatta.com | Jan 21, 2015 | Development, Ruby, Workshops
The second Refactoring Workshop we held at Ruby Hack Night, hosted by theScore, was at least as successful as the first. We’re going to have to make this an ongoing project! Thank you everyone who came out to hack with us, especially those who have attended both...
by support@ryatta.com | Nov 24, 2014 | Development, Ruby, Workshops
Some developers who attended our workshop at Ruby Hack Night were asking about refactoring in the context of the development processes that go on each day at Ryatta (and forward-thinking dev shops everywhere ;). Refactoring is the simple task of reworking code for...
by support@ryatta.com | Nov 24, 2014 | Development, Ruby, Workshops
Based on the positive feedback from October’s Hack Night attendees, we are planning to continue our workshop series on clean code and refactoring. We’ll start by recapping our progress to-date. And then we’re going to facilitate a discussion on what...
by support@ryatta.com | Nov 5, 2014 | Development, Ruby, Workshops
This is a continuation of our series on the lessons we learned from running a refactoring workshop at Ruby Hack Night. You can read Part 1 here. Let’s take a closer look at the broader structure of refactoring, and maybe dive a little deeper into some of the tactics...
by support@ryatta.com | Nov 4, 2014 | Development, Ruby, Workshops
Many low-level tools can be deployed when refactoring; here are 8 fantastic tactics we saw groups using at the Refactoring Workshop we held at Ruby Hack Night Use your tests. Never make more changes before testing than you can debug and revert without pain. Some...
