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 - 87 total

Good Enough Testing Workshop

There are still some spot available for Good Enough Testing Workshop this Friday at 15:00 UTC. Here...

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LLM: removing a test because it cannot make it pass

During the workshop on reliable test case generation using LLMs that I delivered at EuRuKo, I talked...

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A personal newsletter

I launched a personal newsletter at newsletter.lucianghinda.com This morning, I sent my first...

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Everyone Tests Now But Are We Testing the Right Things?

Over the last 15 years, many companies phased out QA teams. The idea: everyone is responsible for...

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Ruby San Francisco Scene is heating up

San Francisco Ruby scene is heating up Source: https://sfruby.com Already two events planned for...

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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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When using LLM to write tests you should remain in charge of choosing the test cases

When using LLMs to write tests, you should remain in control of choosing the test cases or at least...

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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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