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		PapaPalpatine 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ruby on Rails Audit Complete No, I honestly don’t. I can emulate an Enum without having an Enum type. I rely less on a compiler and more on myself with automated tests.

andrekandre 10 months ago | [–]

  >  rely less on a compiler and more on myself with automated tests

jme, but i think this is a muscle that a lot of people don't have developed if they came from a language/toolset/ide that does automatic type checking and autocomplete reliably etc

adhamsalama 10 months ago | [–]

Part of the problem is when you have to rely on someone else.

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