Episode 54: Code Style and Community with Sam Phippen and Justin Searls

Code Style and Community with Sam Phippen and Justin Searls TableXI is now offering training for developers and products teams! For more info, email [email protected] or visit http://www.tablexi.com/workshops. Guests Sam Phippen: Developer Advocate at Google and member of the RSpec Core Team Justin Searls: Cofounder of Test Double Summary On this episode, we’ve got Sam Phippen and Justin Searls back for their third round on the show. Both of them have been working on new Ruby tools to better standardize your team’s style and code formatting. We talk about why they’ve decided these tools are important, what their philosophy of coding style is, how coding style relates to the Ruby community, and how they evaluate code when given a code sample to look at. We’d like to hear from you. How does your team handle differences of opinion in code style? Let us know at techdoneright.io/54 or on Twitter at @tech_done_right Notes 02:21 - Code Style Bikeshedding Standard JS standard Ruby Gem rubocop Hash Rockets are good actually Sandi Metz: Why We Argue Style 09:46 - Choosing Ruby: Community Standards vs Style 14:59 - Evaluating Code Samples for Developer Positions Gilded Rose Refactoring Kata 21:04 - Ruby Format 29:05 - Selecting Rules For Standard 35:38 - Discrepancies in Rails View Template Files haml-lint 39:10 - What happens if these projects aren’t successful? Why's (poignant) Guide To Ruby Previous Justin/Sam Episodes: Part I: Episode 004: In The Testing Weeds Part II: Back in the Testing Weeds with Sam Phippen and Justin SearlsSpecial Guests: Justin Searls and Penelope Phippen.