practicingruby

There's no general rule you can follow here, because it's always going to depend on context. In my experience the kind of feedback loops you create, and the kind of safety nets you need are defined entirely by the domain, the organization, and the team culture.

Here are a few examples:

1. I do a bit of work for a medium-sized dental clinic. The business manager there is really fun to work with, but has the tendency of changing his mind six times before he settles his ideas. So when he asks for a report, I don't put any effort at all into writing tests or worrying about minor bugs even, because my only goal is to flesh out in code something vaguely resembling what he asked for.

Often times, this means doing a handful of 30 minute prototypes until the requirements settle, each of which would have taken me 2 hours if I drove them via TDD. When things finally cool down, I evaluate the complexity and maintainability of the resulting code and either leave it untested, add some acceptance tests, backfill unit tes

gnarmis

#!/bin/bash
#
# Blame @gnarmis if this doesn't work
#
# Put this anywhere on your $PATH (~/bin is recommended). Then git will see it
# and you'll be able to do `git recent-branches`.
#
# Show top 5 most recent branches:
#   $ git recent-branches | head -n 5
#

stephenyeargin

require 'octokit'

# Config
GITHUB_API_TOKEN = '<a token>'
GITHUB_ORGANIZATION = '<an organization>'

###

client = Octokit::Client.new(
	access_token: GITHUB_API_TOKEN

ymendel

gist_ql()
{
  GIST=$1
  TMPFILE=~/tmp/gist_$GIST
  
  gist $GIST > ~/tmp/gist_$GIST
  qlmanage -c public.plain-text -p $TMPFILE >& /dev/null
}

vinbarnes

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'rubygems'
require 'mechanize'

MY_NAME = 'Yossef Mendelssohn'
CHECKIN_REQUEST_URL = 'http://www.southwest.com/flight/retrieveCheckinDoc.html'
prompt = false

conf = ARGV[0]

ymendel

require 'spec/runner/formatter/progress_bar_formatter'

class NescafeFormatter < Spec::Runner::Formatter::ProgressBarFormatter
  def example_failed(example, counter, failure)
    super
    dump_failure(counter, failure)
  end
end

jupp0r

require 'formula'

class Emacs < Formula
  homepage 'http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/'
  url 'http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/emacs/emacs-23.4.tar.bz2'
  mirror 'http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/emacs-23.4.tar.bz2'
  md5 '070c68ad8e3c31fb3cb2414feaf5e6f0'

  fails_with_llvm "Duplicate symbol errors while linking.", :build => 2334

eric

>> engine = ArelBack::Engine.new(ar.connection, Arel::Visitors::MySQL)
>> table = Arel::Table.new(ar.table_name, engine)
>> table.project(Arel.sql('*')).to_sql
=> "SELECT * FROM `awesome_table` "
>>

clifton

$(document).ready(function() {

  // automatically fix obfuscated email addresses pasted into
  // to/cc/bcc fields                                                                                                                                                              

  $("textarea[name=to], textarea[name=cc], textarea[name=bcc]")
  .live('blur', function(e){
    var text = $(this).val();
    var separators = ['_', ' ', '\\[', '\\]', '\\(', '\\)'];
    var separatorExp = '(' + separators.join('|') + ')+';

marick

Nature's first green is gold, 
Her hardest hue to hold. 
Her early leaf's a flower; 
But only so an hour. 

Then leaf subsides to leaf. 
So Eden sank to grief, 
So dawn goes down to day. 
Timezones: they're here to stay.