I was recently browsing the Rails sub-Reddit and was surprised to see how much flak Minitest was getting from the community; the stated favorite seemed to be RSpec by a wide margin. While RSpec has enjoyed widespread adoption and has a substantial ecosystem, I believe...
Ruby Gems are the default way to share code among Ruby projects and developers. While public Gems can be found and used via RubyGems.org, there are occasions when you might need to create a private gem, perhaps for proprietary tools or internal use within your...
Ruby on Rails has consistently set the standard for web application frameworks or put in a way that doesn't make me sound like a half-dead suit, it's awesome and a pleasure to code in. As a seasoned Rails 8 is about a third (according to their Github issues) of the...
Soutaro Matsumoto and the Ruby team over at Square have a proposal for typing in Ruby 3. My initial reaction was a befuddled sort of confusion as though I were a dog who woke up with a human's hands. It took several readings for me to understand why Ruby developers...
A quick look at Active Record JSON & JSONB.
I've been a long-time Ruby developer and more recently have been doing a metric ton of Python work. My goal with this post is to compare the relative pros and cons of each language as I've seen them. This was a difficult post to write, because of the deeply subjective...
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