Lucian Ghinda

Lucian Ghinda @lucianghinda

About: Find me on Mastodon at @lucian@ruby.social or twitter @lucianghinda I am curating a weekly newsletter about Ruby and Rails at https://newsletter.shortruby.com

Joined:
Aug 12, 2022

Lucian Ghinda
articles - 81 total

Ruby Triathlon starts this week

The #Ruby Triathlon starts this week! 1️⃣ The first conference is Rails World, taking place in...

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Flaky Tests, Courtesy of AI

When AI is writing tests in agentic mode, it's crucial to monitor its output. Sometimes, it uses...

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New AI Testing Workshop at EuRuKo 2025

I started working on the workshop for EuRuKo 2025, "Don't Let Your AI Guess: Teach It to Test." The...

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Invisible work separates friction from flow.

Quote from Jony Ive about quality No one will thank you for good error messages or default states,...

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Two new Ruby podcasts from Rails Foundation and Ruby Central

In case you missed this in the last period, there are two new podcasts in #Ruby world: On Rails - a...

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Remember to set the frequency for replication to Litestream!

Curious about how I ended up with an invoice nearing $100 for conducting over 20 million Class A...

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Day 3 of why to join Friendly.rb Conference

I posted already about: The Lineup The Participants Now let's discuss the venue and why you...

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More Than Code: The Friendships You’ll Build at FriendlyRB

Day 2 of why you should join Friendly.rb this year. Let's talk about the people: In every edition...

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Day 1 of why you should join Friendly.rb this year

Let me share over the next couple of days why you should join https://friendlyrb.com (Disclosure: I...

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Running all tests from the current branch

I enjoy creating small automations using Ruby and Bash. While it might be simpler to use Bash, I like...

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Short Ruby Newsletter - edition 139

Short Ruby Newsletter - edition 139 highlights 🚀 Launches Sandi Metz announced a special...

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Short Ruby Newsletter - Highlights from Edition 132

Short Ruby Newsletter - edition 132 highlights The one with several Ruby releases: 3.4.3,...

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Short Ruby Newsletter - edition 127

Short Ruby Newsletter - edition highlights This edition was sponsored by Judoscale and was created...

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How to make sure you review your monkey patch when updating Ruby gems

When I installed Writebook for booklet.goodenoughtesting.com, I monkey-patched some parts of it...

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Everything that I published this week about Ruby #4

Monday Every Monday, I publish the Short Ruby Newsletter: Short Ruby Newsletter - edition...

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Everything that I published this week about Ruby #3

Monday Every Monday, I publish the Short Ruby newsletter I create over the weekend: Short...

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What I wrote about Ruby this week #2

Monday My week started (as it always starts) with publishing the Short Ruby Newsletter on...

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What I posted this week about Ruby

In the last month or so, I have only had a little time to write an article about Ruby, but I have...

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Short Ruby Newsletter - edition 110 highlights

The 110 edition is out. Here are some highlights: Avo is looking for a mid-level Ruby on Rails...

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Three Ruby Links #4

If I were to recommend three articles published last week to read, here is what I would recommend: ...

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Short Ruby Newsletter - edition 109 published

Short Ruby Newsletter - edition 109 highlights 🚀 Launches Andy Croll launched...

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Where to list your Ruby company online

A couple of projects or directories in the Ruby community are trying to aggregate companies or...

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Short Ruby News - edition 107 highlights

Here are some highlights from the last edition of Short Ruby Newsletter. 🚀 Launches Ruby...

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Post live updates from conferences

I am not at Rails World, and I have huge FOMO at home. I look at almost all the people going there...

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See you at EuRuKo 2024

This week, I'll be at EuRuKo 2024 , where I'll speak on two subjects close to my...

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Short Ruby Newsletter - edition 106

The one about Rails performance benchmarks, new Array#fetch_values method and Rails launched an...

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Friendly.rb Ruby Conference updates

In case you have missed the social media announcement let me share here the ✨ Two weeks before...

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What tests would you write for these two simple Ruby objects

A simple PORO Imagine you wrote this simple PORO in your Ruby on Rails app: class...

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Three Ruby Links #3

If I were to recommend three articles published last week to read, here is what I would recommend:...

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Short Ruby Newsletter - edition 105 published

Highlights from the 105 edition of Short Ruby Newsletter. 🚀 Launches Web Crunch...

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