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Matthew • December 15, 2022
The "current pattern" or "current context" is a technique that allows you to access some per-request data easily without having to explicitly pass it around everywhere. Recent versions of Rails offer explicit support for it. The current pattern, used judiciously, will help clean up your code and make your life swell!
Matthew • August 9, 2022
Howdy, Friends! This is our inaugural Ruby Programmer salary report. I hope you'll find this informative if you're looking for info on Ruby salaries (and Ruby on Rails salaries).
Matthew • July 28, 2022
Stack Overflow has recently released its annual Developer Survey for 2022. I've aggregated the popularity and salary responses since 2013 and graphed them. Let's see what we can learn!
Matthew • July 13, 2022
Join me, friend, as I fall all the way down the rabbit hole exploring all the ways you can implement an enumerated type in Rails, depending on your version of Rails, the capabilities of your database, and your requirements and tastes!
Including some surprise functionality from Rails 7 that I didn't know existed!
Matthew • April 13, 2022
Rails is filled with small cool features that make life better once you know about them. One that we all know about but might not use that often is validation contexts.
Matthew • March 9, 2022
I've always found setting up email for a Rails app to be kind of a pain. You need to update a lot of files, you need to figure out how to look at sent emails, and you need to make sure you don't end up sending test emails to the world! This article describes what's become my default strategy for configuring email in Rails so that it's easy to work with email!
Matthew • August 24, 2021
Ruby Job Board now lists Remote, US-based, and Canada-based Ruby on Rails jobs!
Matthew • August 12, 2021
Stack Overflow has just released its annual Developer Survey for 2021. Since it contains some numbers relating to Ruby, and graphing software and blogging software exist, I figured I’d graph those numbers and blog about them.
Matthew • April 26, 2021
A job seeker asked me the other day if I felt it was okay to leave a new job after a week or two.
Matthew • April 20, 2021
As I start thought-leadering publicly and consider the subjects on which I might opine, I keep coming back to the phrase "it depends." By which I mean, "context matters."
Matthew • March 14, 2021
The difficult first blog post in which I say hello.