Define reference to an Active Record that has a custom table defined
Here is a #Rails pro tip I discovered while trying to write a migration for defining a belong_to association to a model that had a...
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2024
4 article recommendations about Ruby from week 10-16 June
If I would need to only pick 4 articles published in the previous week (10-16 June 2024) about Ruby, here is what I would read:Â ...
Endless Method - a short summary
Did you know Ruby 3.0 introduced the endless method? That was more than three years ago. It could be helpful sometimes for writing concise code!...
Preparing for Ruby inline type signatures
There is a gem called rbs-inline that is exploring the idea of putting RBS inline in the source code instead of separate files. Andrey Eremin...
Marketing and communication needs - research
 Are there people who have an idea for a product or are at the very beginning with it and have questions about marketing & comms...
Short Ruby Newsletter - edition 93 published
Highlights from the 93 edition of Short Ruby Newsletter Events: EuRuko, RailsWorld, and BalticRuby announced the agenda and speakers. They have great lineups. Two returnees:...
Innovator's dilemma for programming languages
I was working on my slides about Discovering Modern Ruby Features early in the morning. As I brainstorm, I think about the innovator's dilemma and...
Short Ruby Newsletter - edition 91 published
There were many significant events in the #Ruby world last week, making the newsletter quite lengthy. It's hard to choose just one highlight, but here...
Love the simplicity of Ruby on Rails
I love the simplicity of #Ruby on #Rails which allows me to do this in under 1 minute and have it working. (for me) This...
Using a Case statement or Metaprogramming?
Matt posted this question: A case statement does not add complexity when thinking about readability or maintainability. I know that various tools will report it...
Service Objects and Naming in Ruby
In OOP (maybe in functional, too - but I don't have the same years of experience with functional), naming objects is hard. Naming a collection...
Comparing SvelteKit with Rails
Alireza posted this: Not having any experience with SvelteKit, I did a simple test to compare them by trying to looks for support for SQLite...
Celebrating 4500 subscribers
Today I am celebrating 4500+ subscribers for Short Ruby Newsletter Huge thanks to the #Ruby community!What is Short Ruby Newsletter? It is a free Monday...
Using Bruno - the API client
I started using Bruno this weekend, and I enjoyed it very much. The biggest advantage for me is having all the collections stored in text...
A small example about how Ruby is evolving
A small example about how #Ruby is evolving. I took a code sample from a feature request from 2011 and wrote it using features that...
Slack time - is lack of it a warning sign?
I feel that something important is increasingly missing from how organizations are handling the work: slack time. In many cases, I see a rush to...