There are many great tutorials and books out there if you are just getting started with Ruby. The skills you learn around Ruby syntax and object-orient.

I find this unfortunate because saying code is “bad” is actually meaningless, especially to a non-technical manager. If a non-technical person hears me.

No matter how many years of experience you have in software development, you can always benefit from learning a new technology as it broadens your hori.

One of the earliest projects I was involved in at Valiant was investigating ways to optimise performance and memory consumption in our Rails web applic.

Automated testing is all the rage in web development these days and goes on across the whole industry. A well-written test dramatically reduces the ris.