He is a dynamic #Rails & #Ruby core team member and Sr Staff Engineer at @Shopify! When not innovating in tech, he loves whipping up culinary delights, cuddling with feline friends, and crafting quirky software.
Long shot: Any #Rails devs know of a method to add a lang attribute on any text that's missing a translation, so has had to fall back to the default locale? I suspect I might need to write my own i18n backend, but I'd love to find something already out there.
If I do end up writing my own version of the I18n::Fallback backend, I'll try to get it merged upstream into Rails core; accessibility by default is best accessibility.
How do I tell Heroku to not install install the #nodejs buildpack at all?
(and remediate this WARNING on every deploy)
WARNING:
Installing a default version (20.9.0) of Node.js.
This version is not pinned and can change over time, causing unexpected failures.
Heroku recommends placing the heroku/nodejs buildpack in front of heroku/ruby to install a specific version of node
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I'm hopefully not the only geriatric millennial Rails dev still subscribed to that list. Perhaps you could send out a final message to say that the forum is the new official source?
@NeadReport There should be trains, no idea, the idea might be neat. But when we have railway infrastructure in use, it needs to be upkept. This has a feeling like a gadgetbahn. So many branch lines are not in use in Europe. Some lines were converted into cycle tracks. So are abandonned for the past 30 years and would need a refurbishment. Why not the real deal?
@canleaf
A very similar situation with unused rail lines here in the states.
I think it really boils down to volume of users for either mode.
There are no lines when you order an Uber ride. It comes to you. A rail cab ride into the next small town to shop or dine? I'm obviously a romantic when it comes to this idea :)
I observe devs in my company bringing back the "schema.rb" file from production into the Git repository.
I am uncertain about this practice. Modifying directly the schema.rb file has consistently been problematic for me. Perhaps it's less of an issue if you solely use schema:load, but I remain skeptical.
I would prefer a re-entering migration to rectify the schema, such as using 'create index if not exists.' This way, changes are propagated across all databases in various environments.
@byroot@benoit I live in slight fear that our schema.rb does not actually match our production schema, even though theoretically it should. So this sort of back porting it from production is attractive at least as a sanity/anxiety check
If you are launching a #Rails app, I really can’t recommend Hatchbox enough. It’s like having the ease of Heroku at the price of AWS/Digital Ocean, because that’s what it is.
I also love that we aren’t locked into anything since if Hatchbox vanished tomorrow, we’d just be left with properly configured servers on AWS that we could run ourselves the old fashioned way.
@harpaa01 haha. I mean, that’s their business. Mine would be totally fine. But yeah, I don’t see much risk of that. We set up a load balancer and an app server and deployed in like 10 minutes with Hatchbox. I’m pretty sure that would’ve taken me two days and I probably would’ve fucked part of it up.
⚡Don't make me think, or why I switched to Rails from JavaScript SPAs
ᐅ Vadim Demedes
「 I still enjoy React, but why is it so much harder to create apps in the JavaScript ecosystem, compared to Rails? We have all the necessary tools after all.
I think it all comes down to this. When I start a new JavaScript app, I have to make a lot of decisions on my own. I don't want to, but reality is, I have to 」
I’m really loving building these “one-off” pages. They all live in my #Rails StaticController and have a single route, which makes for very low barrier to adding them. They also tend to have pretty distinct styles. :keeprubyweird: :ruby: :whyfox:
Here’s my blog posting stats from inspired by @robb (like many other posts and pages on my site).
I deployed the new search experience I've been building on Hardcover yesterday 🥳
This will lower our search costs from $400/month (Algolia) to $70/month (Typesense Cloud)!
There's still more to clean it up and improve results, but this was a huge change. Trying to optimize the React to prevent re-renders has been a little tough too 😅
Looking into ways of lowering our hosting costs for Hardcover. Currently we're running at about $1,300/month.
Our largest expense is Algolia - which we use for instant search. It's been amazing, but at almost $400/month it's expensive. If we were to index Authors, Users, Characters and Discussions the cost would triple.
I'd rather not use ElasticSearch. Right now I'm leaning towards Typesense - which has a Rails gem with the same interface (!).
Today, I FINALLY got fed up with the subtle bugs that come with lvh.me being such as short domain name; such as Rails' domains: :all not working by default (it's documented behavior! This sucks! https://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionDispatch/Cookies.html)
So I registered local-loopback-wildcard.com. No matter what you throw, it always resolves to 127.0.0.1. So you can test against subdomains without TLD hacks. Your testing environment matches production; as it should be.
Union Pacific Fired Him Rather Than Heed His Warnings of Dangerous Rail Conditions
Time and again, Johnny Taylor’s duty to keep the #rails safe from disaster conflicted with his employer’s desire to keep its #trains running as fast and as frequently as possible, putting his career and #family in peril.
@ProPublica FTA: he knew he “owned” the 120-mile network of tracks and would get blamed for anything that went wrong. He also didn’t want anyone to get hurt on his watch.
@ProPublica I’m reminded that railroad workers were going to strike because they had zero sick days, and Union Joe got involved to make a deal that kept the system unsafe.
Do I know any Ruby/Rails devs that would be interested in smallish jobs to maintain some old rails apps. We have customers who occasionally ask us for dev help and the people who we usually refer them to are no longer generally available. Would ideally be in UK/EU. email/dm me! #rails#ruby
Doing some #Rails freelancing lately. After mostly #rust work for a year, development is slow.
The lack of compiler and types- feedback is slowing me down terribly.
It often takes me hours or minutes to find out I made a stupid typo, or wrong assumption. With #rust the LSP (or just a cargo check) shows it immediate. In Ruby/Rails it takes a full run of the test-suite and often manual testing.
Static typing is a tool to speed up development. Don't believe the people who tell you otherwise.
