Jeremy Walker

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icon company @Exercism icon location Birmingham, England icon location Co-founder at @exercism and @KaidoGroupLtd. I build businesses and not-for-profits that make the world a little bit better. Open Source enthusiast.

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Auto-detect language per-line is guaranteed to produce poor results

(@rtfpessoa This whole thread might be useful reading: https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/355852/188348)

Use with dummy test app for Rails Plugin

I wrote a blog post about [using Jasmine in a Rails engine](http://www.ihid.co.uk/blog/using-jasmine-in-a-rails-engine) which uses jasminerice. It might be useful for anyone finding this.

Change documentation about maintainer alumnus status field

We do accept strings in the website code, but I prefer that we don't. I believe we decided to allow it in case there was someone who was uncomfortable with...

What was it like to learn Julia?

Hi @Rigante-pl Thanks for your comments. Very helpful to read. A lot of what you've said gets addressed in v3 of Exercism (coming soon), which has more formal "Concepts" that...

What was it like to learn Julia?

> But I'm a little disappointed that it's going to be all interactive challenges on the web-page It's not. The CLI is still there exactly the same as before :)

Leap is dead, long live leap!

@ErikSchierboom Could you check this PR locally pls?

Create stubs for exercises.

I'm a big fan of doing this everywhere. I think it just helps make things really clear and easy. The less need for any command-line interaction, the better. One thing...

Create stubs for exercises.

Widening this to the whole of exercism: https://github.com/exercism/exercism/issues/4789

Create stubs for exercises.

We're not talking about creating a file using Ruby though. Most people use "File->New" in their editor to achieve this. I'm not convinced this is part of fluency.

palindrome-products: instructions don't match function signature

> At the least, restrict the ranges in the test file so that it can pass the tests and won't take 2+ minutes locally without some undocumented testing syntax. Could...