Why I won't help you - Gem Session
But then there are those posts where the author pastes 10 pages of confused code with no context whatsoever and then demands to know why they're getting funny errors. I find this sort of behaviour offensive to all the people who are basically dealing out free support. I'd rather spend my time helping people who actually give a damn.
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Why I won't buy an iPad (and think you shouldn't, either) - Boing Boing
The way you improve your iPad isn't to figure out how it works and making it better. The way you improve the iPad is to buy iApps. Buying an iPad for your kids isn't a means of jump-starting the realization that the world is yours to take apart an...
5 reasons why I won't steal your idea
Since I'm a software architect and a web developer, I get often approached by people with their new ideas. In most cases, for some quality feedback, and on lucky days, for a rough quote about the costs of such a project. These people are usually...
The greatest bug I never fixed - Gem Session
When I realized what had gone wrong, the light almost blinded me.
Gem development: When your specs don't see dependencies from your Gemfile
When you develop a gem and you have a Gemfile in your project directory, you might be surprised that your gem dependencies aren't already required in your specs. Here is some info that should help you out:
- Bundler actually doesn't automatical...
If you aren’t embarrassed by v1.0 you didn’t release it early enough « Successful Software
I cringe every time I hear about someone who has spent years writing their ‘killer app’, but still hasn’t released it. My preferred approach is to get a solid, but minimally featured, v1.0 out there and then iterate like crazy based on real custom...
chromedriver-helper gem in Gemfile might break you selenium tests (of other projects)
Summary: Don't add chromedriver-helper to the Gemfile
- the executables might break your tests in projects where
chromedriver-helperis not in the Gemfile - developers with different chrome versions will have problems using the same `chromedr...
Why you can't use timezone codes like "PST" or "BST" for Time objects
Rails' ActiveSupport::TimeWithZone objects have both a timezone code and offset, e.g. Thu, 28 Mar 2019 16:00:00 CET +01:00. Ruby's stdlib TZInfo also has time zones, but with different identifiers.
Unfortunately, not all timezone codes can b...
Yarn: if integrity check won't let you start rails console
I ran into a situation in which I received the yarn integrity check warning when starting the rails console even though everything was up to date and correct versions in use.
TLDR: run spring stop
I tried starting the rails console without...
Rails asset pipeline: Why relative paths can work in development, but break in production
The problem
When using the asset pipeline your assets (images, javascripts, stylesheets, fonts) live in folders inside app:
app/assets/fonts
app/assets/images
app/assets/javascripts
app/assets/stylesheets
Wit...
Why Should I Care What Color the Bikeshed Is?
Just because you are capable of building a bikeshed does not mean you should stop others from building one just because you do not like the color they plan to paint it.