I just signed up for First Ruby Friend as a mentor. Hopefully I can be helpful to someone in 2023: firstrubyfriend.org

To check if you have rustc installed before you install Ruby 3.2: rustc --version You need >= 1.58 To install rustc on Ubuntu: sudo apt install rustc ruby-lang.org/en/news/2022/1… #ruby

I've actually never used enums in Rails and Postgres before. I was terribly disappointed today to learn that: enum outcome: { pending: 0, correct: 1, incorrect: 2 } generates an exception on save instead of a normal ActiveRecord error. What's the point then? #rails

Ah the bittersweet feeling of a project rolling to its end and you're noticing that your github permissions are being revoked bit by bit. *sniff*.

My good friend Nick Janetakis wrote up an awesome guide to Docker and Rails: nickjanetakis.com/blog/a-guide-f… and a corresponding video: nickjanetakis.com/blog/a-guide-f… #rails #docker

Here's a thought -- given that every rails database tends to be named: THING_development THING_test THING_production Why do we define these separately on 3 different lines in database.yml? Why don't we define a database prefix? Isn't that drier? #rails

ConFreaks released the 2022 Rails Conf videos to Youtube! youtube.com/watch?v=qqTFm2…

If you work in high tech and your spouse has never understood your passion and you just can't get them to understand, I strongly recommend you make the listen to the Graphing Calculator Story: corecursive.com/shipping-graph… #software CoRecursive Podcast

If you work in high tech and your spouse has never understood your passion and you just can't get them to understand, I strongly recommend you make the listen to the Graphing Calculator Story: corecursive.com/shipping-graph… #software

When you're really, really pessimistic and haven't had coffee yet, you write commit messages like this: git commit -m "Actual adding of gemfiles in a way that might, perhaps, maybe, but possibly not work (oh and dynamic color changing)"

If you haven't said a silent prayer of thanks to your appropriate deity for the goodness that is Mastodon, the clown show at Twitter should inspire you to do so: theverge.com/2023/2/14/2360…