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Ruby: How to Run a Rack app in a Background Thread
Stubbing and mocking are fine, but sometimes you want to test full integration. This will help you get your main thread http client talking to your rack app in another thread.
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Resilience in Ruby: Shell Commands
Over the past year I've made myself real friendly with GitHub::Result and I'm loving it. This post is a big intro on how to make your Ruby code more resilient with GitHub::Result leading the way.
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Rails: insert_all and upsert_all
TIL something new about Rails. You can now use insert_all and upsert_all for efficient writes. But that's not all. Read on for what "just worked" and what didn't.
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When and Why Your Code Starts to Smell Bad
I enjoy reading papers and try to on a regular basis. I actually read them old school style. I print them and then use a pen to underline the quoteables that I liked. Sometimes I annotate them with thoughts, and rarely, I have even put a grade at the top,
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Pain and Programming
In May of 2013, my hand pain was so intense I took nearly a month off work. When I started back at work and almost immediately felt pain again, I knew the issue was not rest, but habits. I spent the next eight months reading a ton about posture, muscles,