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...
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...
I had a wonderful Thanksgiving this year and, as is common this time of year, friends and family made the normal mentions of things, places, people, or any other sort of noun that they are thankful. Of course, I agree with the most common objects of gratitude:...
I have to admit it: I think both Node.js and Ruby on Rails are great. I have been working with Rails for a while now and have a few Rails applications in production. I have been working on a project using Node.js for a few months now and, though the project is just...
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