One of the best ways to get better at Rails (and Ruby) is to read more code

Today I read some code that had some impressive chaining and some Ruby I've never seen in the wild -- the "then" method.

https://github.com/docusealco/docuseal/blob/019222ae406be37cea6d6f20b1a5f9ee1580555c/app/controllers/start_form_controller.rb#L83

Whenver I'm learning a new language, or brushing up on a language I haven't used in a while, the first thing I do is write a small testing library.

Then I learn it by writing basic tests.

You know what's cool? 👀

@russolsen just announced that he and @baweaver will do a second edition of 📕 Eloquent Ruby at @pragprog.

It's nice to see that the  @ruby community gained so much traction again recently. 😊

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/russolsen_im-thrilled-to-announce-that-brandon-weaver-activity-7310320740807888897-_w2f?rcm=ACoAABdoG6sBTS7zkEYoaPNSe5jOOfujjyz92tQ

#rubylang #books #PragmaticProgrammer #ruby #rails #rubyonrails #RubyProgramming

Calling all Rubyists! We are looking for help verifying third-party libraries on JRuby 10! I've opened an issue to track that process, and provided links to snapshot JRuby builds you can use to verify your own code. Please help us verify JRuby 10!

https://buff.ly/KIFldNj

I wrote something about Ruby’s documentation. If you’re at #RubyConf this week and want to improve it together, come talk to me 🙂

https://st0012.dev/a-rdoc-maintainer-s-view-on-ruby-s-documentation

My kid is finally old enough so we just bought a mess of PC parts to build a nice desktop PC. I told him no screen restrictions but that we're going to install Linux so he has to install and maintain everything. Oh, the agony and ecstasy to come...

Anyone know of a blog/writeup on how to create an install which is somewhat resilient to breakage (guest VMs/containers, emergency partition, dual boot, etc)?

I think I'll name the PC "bikeshed".