lmao if you don't make it easy for users of your library to log, measure and graph everything. October 10, 2012. Posted by John. Booleans are Baaaaaaaaaad ...
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In a moment of either genius or delirium I decided to name my newest project after myself. Why? Well, here is the story whether you want to know or not. Why Nunes? Naming is always the hardest part of a project. Originally, it was named Railsd. The idea of the gem is automatically sub...
Now that we know the difference between an instance method and a class method , let’s cover the difference between include and extend in regards to modules. Include is for adding methods to an instance of a class and extend is for adding class methods. Let’s take a look at a small exa...
Great stuff. Starting a new project and evaluating this vs. Ohm. Our target is primarily Redis but I could see Mongo in the future and like that this is ActiveModel based. However, echoing some of the above comments, it seems deficient in not only multi-get and transaction support but...
Regarding naming … absolutely agree. It is worth arguing about. The more critical the class is to the system design, the more I might go to the mat and wrestle a good name to the ground. The decision on a name can be a fleeting event, but it will have everlasting impact. Think: Write ...
For the first time ever, I am going to lead with the end of the story. Here is the full ~30 lines that I will break down in detail during the rest of this post. require 'forwardable' module Foo module Instrumenters class Noop def self.instrument(name, payload = {}) yield payload if bl...
The only people that don’t like “unless” are either: A) Old school programmers, which I can understand. B) Blog followers, the people that let the hip blogs choose their mindset. I’ve personally thought, from back in my C/C++ days, that “if not” sounded like the most obscure piece of ...
I have seen this around and this morning finally decided to try it out. Thus far I am finding it surprisingly helpful. If you put the following in your bash profile, it will show the current git branch in your terminal prompt. bash profile addition function parse_git_branch { ref=$(gi...
My last post, Keep ’Em Separated , made me realize I should start sharing more about what we are doing to make Gauges maintainable. This post is another in the same vein. Gauges allows you to share a gauge with someone else by email. That email does not have to exist prior to your add...
