Tag: ruby

Consider the following method. Assume that the call to thing.method_that_possibly_raises! might raise an app exception we will call SomeAppException? What we have here is a code smell. Let’s consider what ensure does. The ensure clause in Ruby…

What 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…

It is said of Ruby’s creator Yukihero Matsumoto, ‘Matz is Nice and So Are We.’ It is this mantra about the Ruby community and programming language, the vision of Rubyists…

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,…

Today I’ve finished version 0.5 of my new Gem, Universal Track Manager. It’s a plug-and-play Rails engine that you install into your Ruby on Rails application with just three simple…

Today I’m announcing ‘a first look’ at my new Gem: Universal Track Manager. It’s an ambitious project that’s going to have nearly universal appeal and utility. Visitors come to your site…

1. deivid-rodriguez/byebug Byebug is a fantastic debugger available for Ruby 2 (and presumably above). Drop gem ‘byebug’ into your Rails app Gemfile and bundle install. In either your test run…

1. Create an ErrorsController in app/controllers class ErrorsController < ApplicationController  def not_found   respond_to do |format|    format.html { render template: “errors/not_found”,               layout: “layouts/application”,               status: 404 }   end  end  def…

Today I’ll take a moment to expound on how web development has changed over the last two decades. Long ago, when we started back in the 90s, connections were slow…

Sometimes in the life of a hybrid Rails-Javascript app you may want to do something unique: have a config file written in YAML available to you in your Javascript code.…