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This is the 23rd video in the NerdDice create a RubyGem series. In this video, Mike puts the finishing touches on version 0.2.0, ensures the CHANGELOG is up-to-date, updates dependencies, and handles the build, push, and tag of the gem. This video covers: 00:00:12 Introduction 00:00:48 Troubleshoot bundling the gem. Use gem build instead of…

This is the 22nd video in the NerdDice create a RubyGem series. In this video, Mike adds one last option to the total_dice method before the 0.2.0 release, allowing the user to specify the randomization_technique in the optional keyword argument hash.

This is the 21st video in the NerdDice create a RubyGem series. In this video, Mike improves the user experience by converting the options of the :total_dice method from a default empty hash argument to keyword arguments by using the Hash de-reference (or double-splat) operator. This affords the user more flexibility in how they invoke…

This is the 20th video in the NerdDice create a RubyGem series. In this video, Mike makes life a little easier on the future users of the gem by using Ruby’s powerful “duck-typing” (if it looks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck…) feature for the :total_dice bonus option. Instead of checking to…

This is the 19th video in the NerdDice create a RubyGem series. In this video, Mike finishes up getting all of the RSpec scenarios passing, updates the README, updates the CHANGELOG, fixes RuboCop offenses, opens a pull request, merges it, and closes the story. This resolves the issue (that was more of an epic than…

This is the 18th video in the NerdDice create a RubyGem series. In this video, Mike implements functionality to use the existing configuration settings to refresh the seed when the configured interval is reached and makes partial progress on getting all of the test scenarios passing in RSpec.