Ruby 3 Ruby's Comparable Module — Custom Ordering That Just Works You’ve probably used sort, min, max, and between? on numbers and strings without thinking much about them. They work because those classes already implement comparison logic Ruby’s core can use. But the moment
Rails Action Mailer — Sending Emails in Rails Without the Headaches Email is one of those features every app eventually needs and nobody particularly wants to build. Welcome emails, password resets, weekly digests, transactional notifications — the list grows quickly once your app is
Developer tips How to Get Your First Tech Conference Talk Accepted Speaking at a tech conference is one of those career milestones that seems impossibly far away until someone tells you the actual submission process, at which point it becomes merely uncomfortable. The secret
Ruby 3 Ractor — True Parallelism in Ruby 3 Without the Shared State Nightmare Ruby’s GIL — the Global Interpreter Lock — has been the punchline of many conversations about concurrency for a long time. The lock means that even with multiple threads, only one can execute
Rails Active Storage — File Uploads in Rails Without the Ceremony File uploads have a reputation for being one of those features that look simple and turn out to be a multi-day project. Pick a storage backend, configure credentials, handle direct uploads, generate variants,
Developer tips Contributing to Open Source — The Career Move Most Developers Overthink The phrase “contribute to open source” carries a weight it doesn’t deserve. Somewhere along the way it became synonymous with submitting a pull request to a major framework, getting accepted by Matz himself,
Ruby 3 Ruby 3.2's Data Class — Immutable Value Objects Done Right If you’ve been writing Ruby for a while, you’ve probably cobbled together something to represent simple value objects — a Struct, a frozen hash, maybe a plain class with an attr_reader and a
Rails Stimulus.js — Adding Interactivity to Hotwire Without a Frontend Framework Turbo handles navigation and real-time updates beautifully — page transitions, stream updates, frame replacement, all without writing JavaScript. But there’s always that next layer of requirement: a dropdown that opens and closes, a
Developer tips Writing in Public — How Developers Build Authority Without Becoming Influencers Most developers I know are suspicious of “building an audience.” It sounds like something that requires a ring light, a content calendar, and a willingness to perform enthusiasm for things you don’t actually
