If you work in Ruby, you probably deal with HTTP a lot. There are various ways to see into the actual HTTP requests and debug them. I’d love to mention a few of them to you.
Why do you care?
If everything goes perfectly, you don’t. It’s debugging. So if you never write any bugs, you’re fine.
In case you write bugs like I do, let’s talk debugging.
There’s an old lightning talk from RubyConf 2019 that I love, about how there’s no such thing as knowing your computer “all the way to the bottom.” At no point does it stop being a stack of leaky abstractions.
An unsuspecting fellow emailed me in response, asking, “yes, but isn’t there one, final...
On Mastodon, FullStack Ruby asks:
It’s a strange sort of environment to be living in as a Ruby programmer.
On the one hand, so much momentum behind low-level “systems” programming languages with strong, static typing.
On the other hand, the “future of programming” is guiding the education of...
Sometimes when you’re reading a murder mystery, you’ll want to think about two different scenarios: what if the butler did it, vs what if it was the wealthy socialite? What would be different? What evidence might they leave?
This is also a core skill for senior-and-up software engineers. It’s obvious...
A fellow recently asked me for advice about running a Ruby workshop. And folks, I had forgotten I knew so much about it before he asked!
Before Rebuilding Rails had a video class, I had written a lot of the material for Rebuilding Rails workshops that I gave at Southeast Ruby and at Railsconf. I...
After a previous post I was asked for some examples: what types of things do you take out of your Rails app, especially a new one, to make a new service? For general rules read that post. But for some specifics, this is the post.
I gave a Twitter-length answer on Twitter. This has a bit more elaboration...
Video version available on YouTube:
A certain kind of software developer—or more often, businessperson— likes to talk about a hundred-year programming language, or even a hundred-year framework.
That’s a pretty audacious thing to say. I mean, software development is roughly 65...
A gentleman on Twitter suggested that to make a new SaaS app, you should do these things:
This is pretty good...
