8 things I look for in a Ruby on Rails app
As a consultant, I’ve looked over a shitload (how many? probably ~150-200) over the last 12 1/2 years in the Ruby on Rails community. I haven’t worked on most of them, but I do get invited to look over, review, audit, and provide feedback on a lot of those.
Over on the Planet Argon blog I’ve shared my quick hit list of a few initial things that I look for when looking over an existing code base.
Lessons in Open Source
A few months ago, I wrote an article on Medium about my experience of starting Oh My Zsh. Thought I’d share it for the few lingering readers over here, too.
d’Oh My Zsh: How I unexpectedly built a monster of an open source project
PostgreSQL is the preferred database of Ruby on Rails developers
The 2016 Rails Hosting community survey results are in. One of the numbers that I’m tickled with joy about? 84% of Rails developers said they’d prefer to use PostgreSQL.
We won!
Check out all the survey results at http://rails-hosting.com/
2016 Rails hosting survey is open
If you’ve not taken the 2016 Rails hosting survey, please do so at http://rails-hosting.com/
Tom on Automatic Differentiation
Tom Stuart posted up an excellent article on Automatic Differentiation in Ruby with links to his talk slides and video.
Action Cable demo by DHH in Rails 5
David was kind enough to put together a demonstration of how to take advantage of Action Cable in Rails 5.
In the video he puts together a small chat application.