Blogs

Authorization in Rails controllers: Pundit versus CanCan
Securing controller endpoints is an important aspect of most non-trivial web applications. For Rails applications there are a number of established libraries used for this purpose. In this article we compare two of the most popular options, Pundit...

Recently in Ruby Core - March edition :: Hello Friend
Many Ruby developers don’t have time to keep up to date with the recent developments inside Ruby core. To make this easier I decided to write up the most recent progress that is happening inside the Ruby Bug tracker. I won’t summarize bug tickets,...

Devs For Ukraine - Supporting Ukraine through a free engineering Conference on April 25 and 26, 2022
Supporting Ukraine through a free engineering Conference on April 25 and 26, 2022Devs For Ukraine is a free, online engineering conference with the goal to raise funds and provide support to Ukraine. 🇺🇦.



Talk with David Heinemeier Hansson - Code with Jason
In this episode I talk with David Heinemeier Hansson about car racing, employee/environment fit and its effect on happiness and productivity, COVID-19, cryptocurrency, the Canadian trucker protests, and the advantage of being able to change your m...



curl-to-ruby: Convert curl commands to ruby's net/http
Ruby's net/http is notorious for not having the friendliest API, but it isn't all that bad. Ruby has great gems like faraday, but in libraries and small utilities it's better to kill your dependencies and use what the stdlib provides.This tool tur...