Featured Writing

I enjoy sharing what I learn through blogging. You can find my full archive of writing on this site, as well as cross-posted at my dev.to profile. This page highlights posts of mine that have been shared by others.

Keeping Up With Ruby News All Week Long

• Short Ruby Newsletter #56

Testing Inherited Behavior

• Short Ruby Newsletter #51

Blue Ridge Ruby 2023 Recap

• Ruby Weekly #658

Flog-Driven Development

• Ruby Weekly #654
• DEV Community (dev.to) on twitter
• The Ruby Dev (dev.to) on twitter

Composing Our Own Guitar Amps From Inherited Gear

• Short Ruby Newsletter #39
• Ruby Radar April 23, 2023
• The Ruby Dev (dev.to) on mastodon
• The Ruby Dev (dev.to) on twitter

Programming Guitar Greatness

• Ruby Weekly #646
• Short Ruby Newsletter #35
• The Ruby Dev (dev.to) on mastodon
• The Ruby Dev (dev.to) on twitter

Duped into modifying a frozen hash

• Ruby Weekly #642
• Short Ruby Newsletter #30
• The Ruby Dev (dev.to) on mastodon
• The Ruby Dev (dev.to) on twitter
• DEV Community (dev.to) on twitter

Evaluating More Coverage in Ruby 3.2

• Ruby Weekly #637
• Short Ruby Newsletter #25
• Short Ruby Newsletter #26

My First Code Commit in Ruby

• Awesome Ruby #346
• Ruby Radar #84
• Ruby Weekly #636

Enumerating Musical Notes

• Ruby Weekly #625
• Awesome Ruby #335
• DEV Community (dev.to) on twitter
• The Ruby Dev (dev.to) on twitter

Symmetric Spies: RSpec Test Organization

• DEV Community (dev.to) on twitter
• The Ruby Dev (dev.to) on twitter
• Short Ruby Newsletter #11

Sharing Past Conference Proposals

• Ruby Weekly #616
• Ruby Radar #62
• Developer Avocados Weekly #174
• Ruby Together news
• DEV Community (dev.to) on twitter
• The Ruby Dev (dev.to) on twitter

Request Spec Realistic Error Response

• Awesome Ruby #322

Designing A Dependency’s Domain

• Ruby Radar #56

Testing Dependencies: Fake It While You Make It

• Awesome Ruby #316

Searching for a Reason

• The Ruby Dev (dev.to) on twitter

Scraping Buy: Scripting for a Purchase

• Ruby Weekly #605
• The Ruby Dev (dev.to) on twitter

Finding an Initially Confusing Result in Rails

• The Ruby Dev (dev.to) on twitter
• Ruby Weekly #595
• Awesome Ruby #304
• Ruby Radar #42

Situational Leadership: A Developer’s Business

• DEV Community (dev.to) on twitter

Setter Method Return Values In Ruby

• Ruby Weekly #579
• The Ruby Dev (dev.to) on twitter
• Ruby Radar #26

Ruby’s Got You Covered

• Ruby Radar #21
• Ruby Weekly #577

Code Golf: Conditionally Add To An Array

• Ruby Weekly #572
• Ruby Radar #18
• The Ruby Dev (dev.to) on twitter
• Dev Community (dev.to) on twitter

Buffered IO Streams In Ruby

• Ruby Weekly #571
• Awesome Ruby #290
• Ruby Radar #17

Temporary State in Tests: Bloc(k) Party

• Ruby Weekly #568
• Ruby Radar #12

Validate CSV Input With ActiveModel::Validations

• Ruby Weekly #562
• Awesome Ruby #270
• Ruby Radar #9
• The Ruby Dev (dev.to) on twitter

ActiveRecord’s New Takes a Block, Kid

• Ruby Weekly #554

Explain Like I’m Five

• The Ruby Dev (dev.to) on twitter
• The Database Dev (dev.to) on twitter

Querying PaperTrail Object Changes in JSON

• Ruby Weekly #541

Using Sonic Pi to Play Music With Ruby

• Ruby Weekly #539

Caching All Native Ruby Gem Platforms

• Ruby Weekly #534
• Official Nokogiri installation guide

Ruby Coverage Documentation

• Ruby documentation (commit)