Just finished porting another of my shell scripts to Ruby. Moving from Linux to BSD has had some surprises and this is one of them:
People make a big deal about writing portable POSIX shell scripts, but it's pretty rare to find a platform that doesn't have, e.g. Bash. No, the problem has been all of the other standard utilities - it turns out I was depending on non-POSIX features in the core utils all over the place without realizing it!
Highlight of my workday was debugging an issue that turned out to be nothing like what the reporter had diagnosed.
The report suggested that our system was having problems parsing URLs with colons in the pathname, suggesting perhaps an encoding issue. It wasn't until I took a deep dive into the logs that I realised that this was a secondary characteristic of many URLs found in customers' SharePoint installations. And many of those URLs get redirected. And SharePoint often uses relative URLs when it sends redirections. And it turned out that our systems' redirect handler... wasn't correctly handling relative URLs.
It all turned into a hundred line automated test to mock SharePoint and demonstrate the problem... followed by a tiny two-line fix to the actual code. And probably the most-satisfying part of my workday!
I'm migrating from another instance, so it's #introduction time again!
I'm Fabio, a software developer originally from #Brazil based in Toronto. I work mostly with #Ruby and #Javascript but I'm always trying new languages and stacks.
I'm very much an #AI skeptic – borderline hater when it comes to AI "art". Yes, I know the tools, hence my opinion.
I currently have some availability for an additional freelance client.
I've been doing #ruby since 2004 or so, and #rails since v1.
I'm also reasonably competent in #JS/#TS (more BE than FE), #python, and #go. If FP is your thing, I can do #elixir, #gleam, or #ocaml, though of the three, I only used Elixir (Phoenix) in production.
All that said, almost all of my recent contracts were for Fractional CTO/Engineering Lead roles.
Yay! I've finally tried the #Ruby debug gem. Boo! I now know for sure the problem I'm seeing is a method being called more times than it ought to be but I've no idea how that's possible here. 🥴
Rubyists! Can anyone tell me how to turn off the new(ish) display of code context for errors (added sometime before 3.4; I don't update often)? Been fine with exception, file and lineno, some stack trace for decades. This extra display clutter is KILLING me.
I suppose it's for newcomers but frankly, I think such a feature belongs in an IDE or REPL -- can't correct the error in the display anyway. For someone like me, with smaller machines/screens, it's a disappointing slog (not happy!). #Ruby
Not every Rails developer is familiar with Action Cable, the framework's built-in WebSocket library for real-time features. In this article, you'll see how easy it is to add real-time functionality to a Rails 8 app without bothering with Redis. Read it here:
A new Weekly Brain Dump is up on my blog! I ended up having a pretty non-programming focused week in the end but there are some interesting things linked!
taylor squash is getting redesigned from the ground up and could become a gem too
Recently reminded that early Basecamp only stayed up in production because Master Developer DHH had a script to restart the Rails process every fifteen minutes.
At least at The Company, our Senior Pythonista Wunderkind (who loudly demanded that Ruby was a shit language and Rails was unfit for production) ran his production services in a GNU Screen session on his personal user account on the prod box.
Which we only learned after The Company parted ways with him, after the umpteenth shouting match with the guy who cut his paychecks.
(Also, in case he's reading: hope you're well, dude. Miss you.)
I'm Fabio, a software developer originally from #Brazil based in Toronto. I work mostly with #Ruby and #Javascript but I'm always trying new languages and stacks because why not?
I'm very much an AI skeptic – borderline hater when it comes to AI "art" – but I keep an open mind and I'm very familiar with the available tools (hence the skepticism/hate).
I also make music sometimes - mostly electronic using #Ableton, #DirtyWaveM8, #PolyendTracker and other bits and pieces, including live drums!
gonna attend the Jitsi webinar about Collabora Office for Linux, Mac and Windows when it starts in 3 hours
to learn more about the product i am now working on developing
@collabora
@CollaboraOffice also waiting for a t-shirt from them thats at https://www.swedavia.se/arlanda/ the airport here
also bought a @dreamhack branded network cable that will be delivered later today for the lulz
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