Another hot day in Berlin. Possibly not the best day to realise you need to renew your passport, but I guess not the worst (at least the queue at the Burgeramt was short - and no, Anja is not talking about hamburgers she’s talking about this place).

It’s the kind of day where working in an attic-floor office makes you sleepy and drowsy and yearning for a rooftop pool like this one:

So it was ice cream for lunch followed by more refactoring.

Carla’s doctoral-project colleague Dino sent through an interesting intro article on NoSQL databases. It’s relevant to the way the iOS app they’re building is handling data, which as far as she understands is with a Graph Network model.

Carla and RGSoC were also featured in an article on women and technology in an Australian online magazine. w00t!

If you drink absinthe with crazy Berlin artists the night before, expect your Monday to be like this:

For some of us merging is the unavoidable consequence of a dysfunctional intimate relationship, for others it’s simply an occupational hazard.

After over a year coding in teams with our fellow humans we are no longer scared of merge conflicts. We just roll out our terminal tools and RESOLVE:

And speaking of terminal tools, if you really want to make your co-workers vomit into their ASCII there’s a way to format RSpec output with a variety of emojis. Mac computers will have no trouble with these, but if you’re running Ubuntu you’ll need to install the Symbola Unicode Font.

Bis Montag Amigas…

Today we were super excited to learn that we won tickets and flights to the RubyShift conference in Kiev in September. Ukraine here we come!

Meanwhile, while we started to refactor our Sinatra tests, we decided to update our Ruby knowledge for a bit of variety. So we’re fighting with monsters in the BLOC.io Ruby Warrior tutorial. At level 6 the monsters are constantly wining :(

We’ll try again tomorrow. And prepare for more refactoring by contemplating this familiar scenario:

Today we finished off the first iteration of rspec tests for Sinatra GET requests. This amounted to almost 100 different tests. Not bad for Sinatra newbies :-)

So far we’ve mainly just rewritten the existing Unit tests, turning them into RSpec versions. This has helped us get our heads around the differences between Unit and RSpec, and also enabled us to work out what Sinatra itself does with the various possible GET requests it can receive.

We’ve known all along that we would need to refactor our work. And not just because of messages like these:

So today we’re celebrating the fact that we’re at the end of the GET list.

Tomorrow we begin refactoring, which we think will probably involve a bit of this: