Ruby Code Quality with Ernesto Tagwerker

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Are you working on Ruby on Rails Applications that are constantly on fire, overwhelmed by technical debt?

Instead of being a firefighter, what if you could be a happy programmer again and "Escape the tar pit"?

Learn exactly how to measure tech debt and take the right steps to immediately improve code quality!

Listen to our conversation with Ernesto Tagwerker (@etagwerker). He is the Founder & CTO at FastRuby.io & Ombu Labs.

He and his company are the maintainers of many code quality projects: skunk, rails_stats, metric_fu, and rubycritic, and many other important Ruby gems such as database_cleaner, bundler_leak, and next_rails.

He's an expert in upgrading and improving legacy Ruby on Rails applications. He taught us some step-by-step strategies you can follow to quickly measure and improve code quality.

Sign up for the hexdevs newsletter today and receive exercises, research-based techniques and actionable ideas to help you become an expert developer!

Episode links
- Full episode Transcript and Show Notes
- Save your spot for the hexdevs Software Design Workshop and take the next right step for your career
- Read How to Improve Code Quality on a Ruby on Rails Application
- Ernesto Tagwerker on Twitter
- Podcast episode about maintaining shoulda_matchers with Gui Vieira
- RubyConf 2019 - Escaping The Tar Pit by Ernesto Tagwerker

- The Code Quality Challenge
- The Mythical Man-Month (book)
- Breaking Up the Behemoth by Sandi Metz
- Getting Empirical About Refactoring
- Code Quality Tools
- Makers vs Menders Talk by M. Scott Ford
- Surviving Legacy Code Workshop
- skunk.fyi (gem)
- skunk (gem)
- rails_stats (gem)
- metric_fu (gem)
- rubycritic (gem)

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Ruby Code Quality with Ernesto Tagwerker

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published 3+ y ago