Differences in version handling between RubyGems and npm

RubyGems and npm are the de facto standard package managers for Ruby and Node.js. At first glance they seem similar (because they are!), but when building a product that interacts with both of them, there are subtle difference that need to be taken into account.

Cracking the Box Open with Module Factories

Metaprogramming is one of Ruby’s most powerful, intriguing and hard-to-grasp features. Ruby has a deep kind of truth that I could not yet find in any language, similar to the chicken & egg dilemma that we find in real life: an object is generated from a class, but a class is an object itself.

Leveraging Rails Money Type

You have a Rails application and need to persist some data through a form which has a JavaScript money mask. Looking for a better way to do it I found two good solutions.

Rails feature that you've never heard about: schema cache

I’ve been doing Rails development already for more than five years and only now I learned about the schema cache, although this feature is mostly relevant for apps under the massive scale.

Dissecting a Case of Imposter Syndrome

It’s been a while since I have had a full-blown, this is really truly nutso, case of Imposter Syndrome. I’m having one now, so I want to pull it apart and see what makes it tick.

Story Points Estimating

Let’s have a talk about what Story Points are and a walk through each step of the estimation process with Story Points.

Don’t Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You

When you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. Sometimes smart thinkers just don’t know when to stop, and they create these absurd, all-encompassing, high-level pictures of the universe that are all good and fine, but don’t actually mean anything at all.

Drawers

Group related classes together. No more silos.