30: Giant Year-End Extravaganza

Ben Orenstein is joined by Chad Pytel, the CEO of thoughtbot to take a look back at some of the things thoughtbot did in 2012. They then answer a bunch of listener questions.

January

• Trajectory Redesign
• Open source releases every two weeks
• Factory Girl 2.4 (refactoring, speed increase) and 2.5 (custom constructors)
• shoulda-context gets a new maintainer

February

• Shoulda 3.0
• Apprentice.io Launches
• Airbrake acquired by Exceptional

March

• thoughtbot goes to Stockholm
• Paperclip 3.0
• FactoryGirl 3.0
• Apprentice.io opens up to all employers
• Copycopter goes open source
• Trajectory gets Campfire integration

April

• Zero Github Issues
• FactoryGirl 3.2
• New Boston office

May

• Trail Maps released
• Trajectory gets a full json API
• Humans Present: Refactoring

June

• Backbone.js on Rails hit 1.0
• Opening and office in SF
• First podcast episode!

July

• Playbook: Video Edition
• Version 3.6.0 of factory_girl, memoization to the names of attributes which adds a 33% speed increase on factories with override

August

• Learn launched

September

• Bourbon Neat version 1.0
• Online workshops

November

• Colorado office announced
• Stockholm drinkup
• 2nd online workshop Test-Driven Rails

December

• Ruby Science launched

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