He’s CTO at CoverageBook, Rubyist, Conference Organizer of Brighton Ruby, Speaker, Bootstrapper & Twin Dad.

One Ruby Thing

An email newsletter, with one Ruby/Rails technique delivered with a ‘why?’ and a ‘how?’ every two weeks. It’s deliberately brief, focussed & opinionated.

  1. Further Performance Testing Enumerable’s Loveliness May 29th, 2025
  2. Performance Testing Enumerable’s Loveliness May 26th, 2025
  3. Enumerable’s loveliness May 26th, 2025
  4. What’s the difference between Rails’s try and the safe navigation (&.) operator? April 28th, 2025
  5. Using Deep Duplication to Avoid Surprises March 13th, 2025
  6. Ordinal Numbers in Rails: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th February 5th, 2025
  7. Use blank? and present? in Rails November 11th, 2024
  8. Launching UsingRails: A Directory of Rails-Based Organisations October 16th, 2024
  9. Compress Your Images June 5th, 2024
  10. Railsconf Detroit 2024: A Co-chair’s Perspective May 19th, 2024
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