Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots
Episode Archive
Episode Archive
595 episodes of Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots since the first episode, which aired on June 11th, 2012.
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3: The FactoryGirl Representation of a Factory
July 12th, 2012 | Season 1 | 40 mins 22 secs
Ben Orenstein is joined by Josh Clayton, the maintainer of FactoryGirl, and a developer at thoughtbot. Ben and Josh discuss FactoryGirl: using it, its development progress, and features. What it's like to run an open source project, and how to contribute to open source effectively. Looking at your old code and being a better developer. Approaches to testing. And answer your questions about: FactoryGirl, How to write effective tests suites and whether integration tests are a scam, our process for upgrading between Rails versions, testing complex UI logic, and leaving code untested.
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2: Design with a sip of Bourbon
June 22nd, 2012 | Season 1 | 35 mins 36 secs
Ben Orenstein is joined this week by Phil LaPier, the creator of Bourbon and a designer at thoughtbot. Ben and Phil discuss the design process, fundamentals of visual design, common design errors, and how to be a better designer (even if you're a developer), and how to work with designers as a developer. They also answer some audience questions about design: How to handle feedback from clients, and HAML vs. HTML.
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1: Polymorphism vs. Conditionals
June 11th, 2012 | Season 1 | 31 mins 13 secs
Ben Orenstein and Joe Ferris (and the surprise special guest Seana Quental) start the series off with a very technical discussion about Polymorphism vs. Conditionals. We also answer some of the audience questions we asked for last week.