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Developers / programmers: do you mainly program because it's your job, or do you have a personal / extracurricular interest in programming?
23%Mostly a job.
11%Mostly an interest/hobby.
63%Both.
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380 votes • Final results
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I'll write an article in due course, but I'm doing some research and these are the top 10 downloaded individual versions of Ruby gems ever.
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"I didn't work hard to make Ruby perfect for everyone, because you feel differently from me. No language can be perfect for everyone. I tried to make Ruby perfect for me, but maybe it's not perfect for you." – Yukihiro (Matz) Matsumoto, the creator of Ruby
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Tip: Want to test HTTP timeouts in your library/language/whatever of choice? httpstat.us/ can not only return any HTTP status you wish, it can take as long as you want to do it too..
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If you define a module in Ruby, it's commonly appropriate to define your own subclass of StandardError for exceptions that are specific to this module. It could be a trivial one-liner :
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Ruby-on-Rails : if you don't want to pollute your database, but you need heavy debugging in the console, there is the "sandbox" option available : rails console --sandbox Everything will be rolled back at the end of your session
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If you think Ruby is not a big market for hiring, then you weren't in the room at #RubyConf2021 this week with hundreds and hundreds of attendees being aggressively recruited by so many companies, both established and new.
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My best investment in the past 15 years: Getting into Ruby on Rails. My second best investment: Sticking with Ruby on Rails when most people didn't. Sometimes, you just got to do what feels right to you.
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If you're using #Ruby on #Rails, caching might be one of the best tools on your belt to build a better application. The idea behind caching is to serve thousands of concurrent users on one server with a single database attached. Check out more benefits of caching on our blog.

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It's here! @Sonic_Pi v3.3 'Beam' is now available to freely download for macOS, Windows and Raspberry Pi OS github.com/sonic-pi-net/soni…
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I’m working on a small, special Ruby 3.0 edition of Ruby Weekly, most likely to be sent tomorrow. If you have anything that’s either Ruby 3.0 or festive/holiday related to go into it, let me know!
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Once again it's that time where one country's tradition of eating a big family meal results in crazy sales all around the world. So.... Only TODAY, there's a 200% discount on @Sonic_Pi! Get your copy now before stocks run out! sonic-pi.net
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Anyone wondering if publicity works: @stimulusreflex downloads have almost doubled since Russ Hanneman told the world about morphs on Sept 22nd. Currently ~9300 installs/week. #rubyonrails
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Ordered a Raspberry Pi 400 yesterday. It's already here and even better it has Ruby out of the box 😆
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Understanding Selection Sort with Ruby: honeybadger.io/blog/ruby-sel…
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How to Completely Remove Ruby 2.7's Default Bundler: dev.to/st0012/completely-rem…
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