I was once told three rules for good writing:
The same apply to writing software. Forget design patterns and best practices — they're a means to an end, not an end in themselves. If you're code...
read moreSandi Metz gave a great keynote at keeprubyweird.com. You should watch it.
Here's a summary for my own future reference. She goes through 3 interesting psychological experiments, and then covers the take-home points with regards to software dev. Here...
read moreA note for my own future reference: if you're using rails with spring, and you add a new class in a new file under a new folder in your /app directory (eg, adding your first service to an app at /app/services/my_service.rb), Rails will not find that...
I'm not the first person to recommend against default scopes.
Just wanted to throw one more warning in the pot. My previous convention was that I would ONLY use default_scope for ordering:
class Customer < ActiveRecord::Base
default_scope -> {...Slides and transcript of my recent talk given at both #rorosyd and Alt.net meetups this November:
Hi I'm Joss, and I am not an SEO. However, I know enough to be able to call out really bad SEO advice when I see it, and that's something I feel every...
read moreRecently at work, I was describing what a client wanted to a designer, and I said "let me take a look at what you've got so far."
His reply: "No, 'cos then you'll give me design input, and what I want is information."
While it was a small blow to...
read moreScaling ruby apps to 1000 request per minute: Most of us don't have to worry about reaching twitter-scale. 1000 rpm will more than cover us.
Ludicrously Fast Page Loads - A Guide for Full-Stack Devs: A lot of talk about how fast Go...
TLDR; You should make all your database columns so they DON'T allow nulls - unless you have an explicit reason for needing nulls.
Rails defaults to letting database columns have nulls. That is, if you use Rails migrations to create a new column, if...
read moreI did this last year. Been meaning to do it this year (I've had goals in my head since the beginning of the year). We're almost a third the way though 2015, but I've finally got around to writing them down.
As in plain...
read moreA summary of this video for my future reference.
require is a kernel method. When you require files, ruby looks in the $LOAD_PATH global variable (it's also available in $:).
$LOAD_PATH is an array of absolute paths.
Let's say we have shape.rb and...
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