Sadly, I had a lot of difficulty getting Rails 7 with Turbo and Stimulus up and running. The Rails docs feel like they’re missing a few steps, so I wanted to document the commands I needed to run to get Rails 7 with the hotwire.dev tooling up and running.
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Ruby Paper Cuts
I love programming in Ruby and (especially) the Ruby on Rails framework. That said, they both have some oddities and conventions that leave me scratching my head, making me wonder what such smart people are thinking, and questioning the very nature of reality…you know, much like an episode of a Disney+ or CW show.
Continue reading “Ruby Paper Cuts”Running Sidekiq Locally in Rails
Recently, I needed to debug some issues with a Sidekiq queue in a Ruby on Rails app and figured I’d take the time to figure out how to run Sidekiq locally. Thankfully, it’s really quite easy!
Continue reading “Running Sidekiq Locally in Rails”Understanding unless in Ruby
I don’t know about you, but Ruby’s unless
has always been kind of hard for me to grok, but I’m realizing that’s because I’ve never seen a great use of it, esp. one that made me go, “Oh wow – yeah I’d definitely use unless
there vs. an if
statement or something else.”
However, the deeper I’ve gotten into Ruby the more I’ve noticed one place where unless
really shines – guard statements. Consider the following:
def update_book_title(book, title)
return unless book.present?
book.update(title: title)
end
Now there’s a place I would definitely use unless
over other control flow constructs. It’s succinct, easy to understand, and honestly a pleasure to both write and read.
Nice job Ruby! 🔴💎
Legacy Ruby Code
A programmer programmed in PHP. The code she wrote was legacy code as soon as her commits entered the git repo, and they provided gainful employment for many other programmers for years to come.
Another programmer programmed in Ruby. His code was also legacy code from its inception, yet his code prompted several developers to pivot to management careers and a complete application rewrite in Go.
Upon hearing of this, a wise programmer remarked:
How much better it is to work with Java written in PHP than Java written in Ruby!