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New in Rails 8.1: Bring Your Favorite Editor to Error Pages – Glauco Custodio – Software engineering, open source, community and passion
Rails 8.1.0 (released on October 22, 2025) brings a new feature that allows you to open the file that caused the error in your favorite editor.
To enable this feature, you need to set either EDITOR or RAILS_EDITOR environment variable with the pa...
A Soiree into Symbols in Ruby | Stonecharioteer on Tech
Okay, it’s a token of a sort, I think.
I’ve been befuddled when seeing :name instead of name and I didn’t know what it was at first. I spent some time reading Michael Hartl’s Learn Enough Ruby and I cannot really say I understood Symbols, so I wa...
Minitest v1.0.0 on ruby 3.4 | zenspider.com | by ryan davis
The last post showed how minitest was originally written. That must have been back on ruby 1.7 or 1.8? If I were to write it today, it would probably look more like the code below.
Some things to pay attention to:
56 lines instead of 99!
Cleaner...
How I ran one Ruby app on three SQL databases for six months – mackuba.eu
Since June 2023, I’ve been running a service written in Ruby (Sinatra) that provides several Bluesky custom feeds (initially built with a feed for the iOS/Mac developers community in mind, later expanded to many other feeds). If you don’t know muc...