Heroku is a robust leader in 12-factor deployment strategies. It is a large and feature-rich platform. You can deploy your app knowing that you are sitting on top of one of the best infrastructures on the planet for deployment and hosting. Importantly, when you are...
Read MoreWhat is RVM Big Sur? RVM stands for Ruby Version Manager and is a tool used by Ruby developers to switch between different versions of Ruby. Big Sur is the operating system released by Apple in Nov 2020, notably called macOS 11 for modern Mac computers....
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Last week in a virtual chat room at the React Summit Kent C. Dodds was asked an interesting question: What does he think of Rails? “I hesitate sometimes with frameworks that abstract a lot. It certainly worked out well for Rails. If you fit within...
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Remote work was here to stay, or was it? In 2020 we explored how it was work remotely, but the shift is probably short lived in corporate America, where "face-time" gives people who show up an advantage. ...
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Tested codebases are the most signficiant development from Rails and Agile over the last 15 years. End-to-end testing, in particular, is the defining reason why Agile and Rails have been so successful. Not writing tests should be seen as akin to malpractice in software development....
Read MoreRubygems says my Rails engine (a gem) Universal Track Manager has crossed the 5000 downloads milestone. Interested in tracking page visits in a Rails app? Check out the newly upgraded SHA that makes querying for ad campaigns super-fast. This is quickly approaching a very solid,...
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Software development, like a bagel shop, has several queues encountering different wait states. Ideally, an efficient scrum reduces muda and muri (waste). Task switching is your enemy....
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The one about the chickens and the pigs is an old part of scrum folklore. It is outdated and sexist. Its lesson however is still relevant....
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Confusingly, bundler can have more than one version of Rails installed at once. In this short post, I will review how to check which version of Rails bundler has installed, and how to know which version of Rails you are using to make a new...
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For a Good Strftime lets you easily create the Ruby syntax for strftime. Just select how you want your dates: month first, day first, year any place. With dashes, slashes, or colons. ...
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