With the festivity season kicking-in, I have been thinking about gratefulness. As technologists, we are one of the luckiest professionals in the world. To be grateful is an important reminder that helps us feel fulfilled, happy and helps us define our purpose — even when you are just fixing an obscure bug no one else […]
Tag: opensource
A different take on validation using the dry-validation gem
If you are using Rails and you find yourself fighting validations more often than you would like to, then you should consider watching my talk I gave at the London Ruby User Group this February about on dry-validation. I will present the API surface which uses a schema based declarative approach and I will compare […]
Understanding the Resque internals – Resque::DirtyExit unveiled
If your Resque jobs fail because of a mysterious Resque::DirtyExit a quick tour of the Resque internals will help you fix the issue and be back up and running in a matter of minutes.