251: Absent-Minded Whistling - a podcast by thoughtbot

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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