Zero to Deployment with Ruby, Roda, and Cloud66
Graceful development is all about cultivating well-paced feedback loops at every level. And one of the most important feedback loops we can build is a…
Self-Expiring Code
The trouble with temporary fixes is that they have a tendency to be not-so-temporary. They are forgotten, they accumulate, and sometimes they cause trouble. In…
New Video: Unary Operators in Ruby
Recently I ran across a social media post about some seemingly-bizarre Ruby behavior, and I decided it would make a great jumping-off point to talk…
Unary Operators in Ruby
A bit of seemingly-nonsensical Ruby behavior leads us to a discussion of unary operators, parsing heuristics, and the vital importance of whitespace.
New Video: RUBYOPT and the Sneaky Shim
Sometimes we need to temporarily patch third-party code—to add compatibility shims, or to add some diagnostics. And sometimes, that’s not easy to do… and we…
RUBYOPT and the Sneaky Shim
You need to insert a compatibility shim, diagnostics, or tracing code into a Ruby process… but you don’t have control over how the program is…
Ask the Runtime
It’s hard to eat a sandwich with a spoon, and it’s hard to debug dynamic programs with static tools. In this episode, we look at…
Getting the Lay of the Land in an Unfamiliar Project
You’ve just git-cloned a project you’ve never worked on before. How do you get oriented and situated? In this unrehearsed video, I talk about some…
Ruby Block-Local Variable
Ruby’s variable-scoping rules can be a little surprising if you’re coming from a C-like language. Learn how to introduce variable “shadowing” to Ruby blocks, and…
Bouncer Method in Ruby
In which we discover a micro-pattern for extracting method input validations… with a uniquely Ruby twist at the end.
