Practical Sorbet: Improving Your Ruby with Type-safety
Use Ruby's most popular type checker to code confidently
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What You Will Learn!
- Understand how Sorbet can statically typecheck your Ruby codebases
- Explore using runtime Sorbet utilities to add signatures and create type-aware code
- See how Sorbet can gradually be added to a codebase
- Understand how Tapioca provides useful development utilities that aid in Sorbet adoption
Description
The Sorbet type checker from Stripe has grown in popularity among Ruby development organizations in recent years due to its gradual nature and the number of bugs it can eliminate. Type guarantees have traditionally seemed impossible in the Ruby language, but Sorbet has provided a great solution. Getting started can be difficult for some teams, though. In this course, we'll learn everything you need to know to introduce Sorbet to new or existing projects, understand the best way to write type signatures and use other features of Sorbet and see how to improve your development workflow with a typechecking step.
You'll see how to get started with Sorbet in any Ruby codebase in less than 30 minutes. Then, we'll explore various aspects of Sorbet in depth and how they all work together to provide type safety to your code. By the end of this course, you'll have tools to update your development workflow with typechecking and learn how to approach adopting Sorbet on any team composition or code organization strategy. Sorbet works equally great for small and large repositories alike.
Small Ruby consultancies and large Ruby organizations such as Stripe and Shopify all ship code confidently with Sorbet. Discover how easy it is for your team to start doing the same!
Who Should Attend!
- Intermediate Ruby developers looking to improve their teams' code with type-safety
- Developers working on teams that have already adopted Sorbet and want a more well-rounded introduction to Sorbet
