Ruby 3x3 announced that Ruby 3.0 would be three times as fast as Ruby 2.0. It was an audacious goal, especially for a language released in 1995.
Ruby 3 is due to be released in less than a month. They’re hard at work on some of the features, but non-JIT performance is pretty close to release speed...
Rack is Ruby’s standard web interface. Rails uses it, Sinatra uses it, basically every Ruby web server and framework use it.
And Rack adds “middleware,” pieces of software that you can build an app out of. They see requests and responses, and they can modify both. Middleware is so powerful that Rails...
I’ve recently started a podcast called “Computer Science: Just the Useful Bits.” I interview a different professional developer, with a different background, each week. They’ll let you know what parts of their education they think were good, which were bad, and which were worth emulating.
“When are...
Rebuilding Rails, like a lot of products, has multiple levels (“tiers.”) At the lowest level is the ebook and the first two video chapters. The next level, the Framework Engineer package, is the ebook and a six-chapter video workshop on building an MVC framework. And the Full package is the ebook...
I was recently on Jason Swett’s podcast again. He’s a great interviewer and I always have fun with him.
By Twitter request we talked about… When would you not use Rails? It’s a great question.
For the entertaining version, listen to the podcast. For the just-the-facts extra-complete version, I’m...
You’ll often hear folks claim that it’s well-researched that some developers are ten times (or twenty-seven times! Or more!) as productive as the median developer. They often refer these gifted folks as “10x developers.”
The “well-researched” part is garbage. Completely wrong. There are some studies...
The other day Gábor Szabó asked an insightful question on Twitter. Here’s his actual phrasing:
I keep hearing about a huge shortage of tech people and I keep seeing recruiters hunting lots of people yet, I also see many people who have a hard time finding a job. Why is that?
— Gábor Szabó (@szabgab...
In this series I’ve built out a Rails app from scratch, deployed it and I’m this close to getting it actually useful.
Will today be that final bit to hit “useful?” I don’t know as I write this, but it’s getting closer…
Last week we built out subscription buttons, profiles for managing subscriptions...
In this series I’ve built out a Rails app from scratch, deployed it and I’m not too far off from getting it actually useful.
I’ve also had a nice photo shoot with my stuffed animals so the site’s a lot prettier.
I want to build email reminders. It’s the last major thing for the site. Unfortunately...
I’m sure you’ve seen many articles asking, “is Rails dead?” and “is Ruby dead?”… Indeed, you’ll see them for any technology old enough to have a real userbase, even technologies that are still growing.
I’m not here today to answer whether Ruby or Rails is dead. Instead, I’m here to explain why people...
