The Bike Shed

Derek and Sean talk trade schools, sneaky bugs, bad method names, before_filters, and the Superbowl. Turing School and Metis trade schools. "Car Wash" by Rose Royce Sean introduces accessed_fields to the ActiveRecord Attributes API. Peek for insights into your rails app. Bullet for hunting down N+1 queries and unused eager loading. What does Faraday middleware look like? The Clearance redirect loop Derek introduced and fixed. before filter and its friends have been deprecated in Rails 5.0 The various ways people set instance variables in Rails controllers. read_attribute_before_typecast problems from _before_type_cast dirty checking causes errors RangeError s are hard (Sean's solution to the test placement problem was to not commit the test)