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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