• The Single Responsibility Principle, Part 1

  • 19 May 2016
  • architecture

  How I fail to understand it and you can too.

• Breakpoints in Ruby and Elixir

  • 23 Apr 2016
  • ruby
  • elixir

  Knowing how to set and interact with breakpoints in a language is crucial to efficient debugging. Here's a side-by-side comparison of breakpoints in Ruby and Elixir.

• How to not use a Mouse on OSX

  • 19 Dec 2015
  • dev-env

  Using a mouse is almost always an avoidable waste of time. Here's how I get by without one.

• Deploy and Host a Ruby App Running Non-Web Processes

  • 11 Dec 2015
  • ruby
  • dev-ops

  Most ruby apps use web frameworks such as Rails or Sinatra, and thus are deployed and hosted to run web servers. I recently had the need to host something out of the norm: a plain-old ruby app running non-web processes. I did it using capistrano, foreman, upstart, and monit. Here's...

• Speed Up Rails Tests

  • 15 Nov 2015
  • ruby
  • rails
  • testing

  I recently cut the run time of a legacy Rails app by 32 min on CI, and 21 min locally. Here are the changes that made the biggest difference.

• Learn Vim at Work

  • 21 Sep 2015
  • dev-env

  Learning vim is daunting. It kills your productivity for at least a full week. So how can anyone justify learning it while at work? This is how I did it.

• Tmux Setup with Vim

  • 11 Sep 2015
  • dev-env

  I recently started using Tmux. Here's how I installed and configured it to play nicely with Vim.

• Enumerator's #with_object method

  • 12 Sep 2014
  • ruby

  The benefits of this handy, oft-neglected ruby method.