Noel Rappin
noelrap@ruby.social

The official Ruby documentation page at https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/ has gotten a much-needed update.

Thanks to @zenspider for taking charge on fixing this!

(I should note that it now directly references the Pickaxe, but it's better for lots of other reasons, too...)

January 08, 2025
Noel Rappin
noelrap@ruby.social

Hey, last day to get all #pragmatic ebooks at 40% off

Go to https://pragprog.com with code "turkeysale2024”.

Find all our great #ruby books at https://pragprog.com/categories/ruby-and-rails/

The #pickaxe book is at https://pragprog.com/titles/ruby5/programming-ruby-3-3-5th-edition/

Thanks!

December 02, 2024
Noel Rappin
noelrap@ruby.social

I hope to see many of you at #rubyconf in Chicago next week.

Chime is a sponsor, not just of the conference as a whole, but also of the scholarship program.

We have a sponsor session, and members of Chime's "I Heart Ruby" team will talk about how we support our Ruby devs.

November 04, 2024
Noel Rappin
noelrap@ruby.social

Hey, the Pickaxe Book (print edition) is still on sale at Amazon (US) -- https://amzn.to/4gYbTSK -- I have no idea how long this will last...

October 14, 2024
Noel Rappin
noelrap@ruby.social

I'm trying to expand the example in https://noelrappin.com/blog/2024/08/what-about-static-typing-in-ruby/ a bit for my upcoming RubyConf workshop...

And I'm realizing that almost anything I do to add even a tiny bit of logic to it will cause it to fail before it gets to the end -- almost anything I do will want to use a User object and if the incoming type is wrong that’s likely to fast-fail sort of incidentally.

Need to rework the example a bit, I think.

October 14, 2024
Noel Rappin
noelrap@ruby.social

For some mysterious reason, the #pickaxe book, Programming Ruby 3.3 is on sale at Amazon for about 20% off -- https://amzn.to/3U2dsVR. No idea how long this will last…

October 08, 2024
Noel Rappin
noelrap@ruby.social

Anybody else seeing an issue in recent versions of Bundler where doing an update causes the lockfile entry for public gems to incorrectly move to a private source?

October 07, 2024
Noel Rappin
noelrap@ruby.social

Quick reminder that I'll be at the SF Bay Area Ruby Meetup next Thursday (10/10) at Chime HQ, along with @keystonelemur and Vladimir Dementyev of @evilmartians.

I'd love to see you there!

Sign up at https://lu.ma/jfpfmh19

October 04, 2024
Noel Rappin
noelrap@ruby.social

Do I know somebody out there who is a Ruby and Golang expert?

September 30, 2024