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Be More GARY: Upping your RSpec game

Improve your test code by moving away from the DRY principle

11 min readFeb 19, 2024

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Be More GARY: Upping your RSpec game

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Scott Matthewman

Creating a CSV Export library for Swift (Part 1)

Hand-rolling a strongly-typed CSV export syntax from scratch

6 min readJan 3, 2024

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Creating a CSV Export library for Swift (Part 1)

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Modelling an optional attribute with SwiftUI pickers

How to express “none of the above” without reaching for custom code

6 min readDec 3, 2021

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Modelling an optional attribute with SwiftUI pickers

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Dismissing SwiftUI modal views in iOS 15 and macOS 12

This post discusses changes to SwiftUI first revealed at WWDC 2021 and are still in beta, so are subject to change.

4 min readJun 11, 2021

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Dismissing SwiftUI modal views in iOS 15 and macOS 12

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Building a login screen using modal views in SwiftUI

Creating a dummy view that prevents users from accessing your app until they log in is quick and easy using ‘full screen cover’ modal…

10 min readMay 22, 2021

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Creating a segmented progress bar in SwiftUI with Swift Playgrounds

Building custom controls in a declarative style is easy with SwiftUI — and you can do it all on an iPad if you like

7 min readApr 27, 2020

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Creating a segmented progress bar in SwiftUI with Swift Playgrounds

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Scott Matthewman

A tear, Sarah Jane?

Nine years since the passing of Elisabeth Sladen, aka Doctor Who’s Sarah Jane Smith, here is a reprint of my obituary from 2011.

4 min readApr 19, 2020

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Elisabeth Sladen as Sarah Jane Smith, posing with K9 in front of the TARDIS.

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RuboCop in legacy projects, part 2: Focus on the present

Applying your style guide selectively is the way to stay sane, but takes a little work

7 min readOct 22, 2019

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RuboCop in legacy projects, part 2: Focus on the present

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Scott Matthewman

RuboCop in legacy projects, part 1: TODOs and TODON’Ts

Ruby and Rails developers: adding style linters to your legacy projects is harder than it should be. Let’s do something about that.

6 min readOct 2, 2019

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Find the cause of randomly failing tests with RSpec bisect

If your test suite is randomly failing, it may also be able to help you find out why.

7 min readJun 29, 2018

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Scott Matthewman

Scott Matthewman

Scott is a software developer during the day and a theatre critic & director of an evening. Which is the worst superhero identity ever.

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