Rahoul Baruah - The Art && Science of Ruby

Hiring Developers from Upwork

Nov 13, 2024 3 min read

I was just involved in a discussion on Reddit, where someone was asking for advice about getting hired on Upwork. That prompted another response from someone asking about the best way to hire

My new gem, Plumbing. - Pipelines (functional-style data transformations) - Rubber Ducks (type-checking the ruby way) - Actors (safe concurrency and parallelism) - Pipes (the observer pattern revisited) And how to use it for your modular monolith.

Why I don't miss Minitest

Jun 29, 2024 1 min read

I've just got back from BrightonRuby, which was excellent. Lots of great talks, meeting up with old friends and making some new ones. A big thank you to Andy Croll and

Functional Pipelines

Apr 19, 2024 12 min read

Before we begin, two bits of houskeeping: * Firstly, I've been up against mega-deadlines for the last few weeks, so I missed a post last week. I can't guarantee that

Dynamic versus Static types (or ruby against the world)

Apr 5, 2024 14 min read

Where we're at As I mentioned last time, the code in front of me doesn't really match the code I was describing as I was writing the previous articles.