251: Absent-Minded Whistling The Bike Shed

On this week's episode, Steph and Chris discuss using JSONB to store survey responses and the differences between JSON and JSONB, using (or not using!) exceptions in Ruby and the fail keyword, the pros and cons of namespacing models in Rails to organize features, and a new recommendation for running tests from vim.


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Seagull Mic Drop
vim-test plugin for running tests
vim-rspec thoughtbot's plugin for running specs from vim
JSON types in Postgres
Ruby fail keyword
Avdi Grimm and Jim Weirich on exceptions
The Zen of Python
Idris programming language
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