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Gregory Brown @skillstopractice.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11d

I just signed the open letter to the Rails Core team, after hesitating for a long time about whether that was the right choice for me.

I know and like several Rails core members, as well as several Basecamp employees. I understand the squeeze that can happen when speaking out individually only […]

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Gregory Brown @skillstopractice.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18d

So the way I read this is a sponsor forced this action by Ruby Central.

If that sponsor was Shopify, then in effect, this confirms that a company that DHH is a board member of forced this action.

If not, who was responsible for this then?

This is a very […]

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Ruby + Rails : Distilled @distilled.skillstopractice.com · May 21

Sorry for the very long thread!

Just wanted to get this all out there so I can link to it if anyone else asks.

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Ruby + Rails : Distilled @distilled.skillstopractice.com · May 21

Now if there's a learning and growing that happens... I'll be back! This is the closest I've seen to a platform that *could* work at global scale.

Mastodon is solving a different problem.

But it's a safer place for me to be until atproto has at least a couple alternative platforms on it.

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Ruby + Rails : Distilled @distilled.skillstopractice.com · May 21

I spent the last decade as a management consultant / exec advisor for several different businesses (one of which was much bigger than Bluesky in revenue + team size) trying to design sustainable revenue models that take network effects into account.

I don't see it here, so I gotta go.

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Ruby + Rails : Distilled @distilled.skillstopractice.com · May 21

I believe in the good intentions of the team and even in the lack of *active* ill-intent from the person I'm referring to here, and I did have a meaningful convo in private where I felt heard and was told that my notes have been passed on to the team.

But I also make my own choices on principle.

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Ruby + Rails : Distilled @distilled.skillstopractice.com · May 21

It turned my stomach to see that team member playfully say things like "Should I delete that post for you since its an ad?" when it was a link to some small individual creator's work.

To think that's what we've got shaping strategy at one of the world's most influential platforms is very unsettling

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Ruby + Rails : Distilled @distilled.skillstopractice.com · May 21

All of this triggered alarm bells of tech startup culture where engineers + product designers lead efforts and there's a lack of seriousness about building real, sustainable business models, and a lack of responsibility to use power and visibility appropriately and be mindful of differentials.

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Ruby + Rails : Distilled @distilled.skillstopractice.com · May 21

I observed one of Bluesky's most visible team members poking fun at and being unkind to someone who runs a small account here for questioning their intentions, and that same person treated me very poorly as well until they realized I had a nuanced argument to make.

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Ruby + Rails : Distilled @distilled.skillstopractice.com · May 21

notes.skillstopractice.com/updates/2025...

I had assumed that Bluesky had made a commitment to seek a self-sustaining business model that didn't involve ad revenue and I was wrong about that, even though prior conversations with the team made me believe otherwise.

Bluesky Business Model - Risk Factors | S2P :: Notes

Notes from Gregory Brown

notes.skillstopractice.com

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Ruby + Rails : Distilled @distilled.skillstopractice.com · May 21

Ruby + Rails : Distilled is moving to Mastodon.

Just getting set up over there but you'll find the account here:

ruby.social/@distilled

I will set up bridging when I can, not sure if I will do crossposting though.

If you're set up with @ap.brid.gy here I can still share your posts that way.

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Gregory Brown [MOVED, SEE BIO] @skillstopractice.com · May 19

I'm leaving Bluesky effective immediately and this is the reason why.

I'll post when I get Mastodon set up + an RSS feed + newsletter.

Why @why.bsky.team · May 19

If you have problems with us as a company making revenue, then i've got some bad news.

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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · May 17

The penultimate part of SOLID: the Interface Segregation Principle.

SOLID: Interface Segregation Principle (ISP)

The Interface Segregation Principle is about designing thin, cruft-free interfaces which results in reduced coupling.

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Josh Frankel @joshfrankel.bsky.social · May 15

ViewComponents reduce bloat, simplify data, and create reusable frontend styling. Despite these benefits, they're often under-utilized in the Rails community. I've written a blog post refactoring a real-world example into isolated ViewComponents.

joshfrankel.me/blog/viewcom...

#ruby #rubyonrails

ViewComponents, the Missing View Layer for Rails

If you’ve worked with Rails for any measure of time, then you know that Rails’ Views can quickly get out of hand. Between Helpers, instance variables, and inline logic, they quickly become bloated and...

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David @dcyoung.dev · May 16

You might get less performance from using `.excluding` than `.where.not` and here's why.

dcyoung.dev/shorts/how-e...

#RubyOnRails #WebDevelopment

🎓 How .excluding works in Rails

Rails provides a convenient .excluding method for identifying a group of items while omitting another set.

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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · May 16

How do you manage error classes in your app?

- Granular — Domain::Specific::NotFoundError
- Generic/Reusable — Error::NotFound
- Not — StandardError/raise 'x'

Personally, I create my own error classes so I can see what's wrong at a glance, even if it means catching existing ones.

#RubyLang

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Ruby + Rails : Distilled @distilled.skillstopractice.com · May 16

Already several good RSS feeds in the thread.

Keep them coming! Discoverability is hard these days and RSS was one of those lovely tools that deserves a comeback.

Ruby + Rails : Distilled @distilled.skillstopractice.com · May 15

If you've got a blog where you (at least sometimes) write Ruby-related posts, please reply with a link to your RSS feed below.

I am going to try to start keeping an eye on those as well and sharing interesting stuff I find from time to time.

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Ruby + Rails : Distilled @distilled.skillstopractice.com · May 15

If you've got a blog where you (at least sometimes) write Ruby-related posts, please reply with a link to your RSS feed below.

I am going to try to start keeping an eye on those as well and sharing interesting stuff I find from time to time.

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Javier Cervantes @jvrc.ca · May 15

What do you love about programming in #ruby?

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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · May 15

Don't want to expose a class' initializer in Ruby? Making it private is easy!

Just use `private_class_method :new`.

This conveys intent that your class is not designed to be initialized from outside — perfect when you want to use the factory pattern.

Screenshot of Ruby code:

class Pizza
def self.margherita
new(sauce: 'tomato', cheese: 'mozzarella', toppings: %w[basil])
end

def self.vegetariana
new(sauce: 'tomato', cheese: 'mozzarella',
toppings: %w[aubergine mushrooms peppers onions olives])
end

private_class_method :new

def initialize(sauce:, cheese:, toppings:)
@sauce = sauce
@cheese = cheese
@toppings = toppings
end
end

Screenshot of Ruby code:

Pizza.margherita
# => #<Pizza:0x0000000121c17f10
# @cheese="mozzarella",
# @sauce="tomato",
# @toppings=["basil"]>

Pizza.vegetariana
# => <Pizza:0x0000000120f34988
# @cheese="mozzarella",
# @sauce="tomato",
# @toppings=["aubergine", "mushrooms", "peppers", "onions", "olives"]>

Pizza.new(sauce: 'white', cheese: 'none', toppings: %w[pineapple])
# => private method 'new' called for class Pizza (NoMethodError)

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Hans Schnedlitz @hansschnedlitz.com · May 15

How to automatically trigger a file download with Turbo?

The user triggers the creation of a file. That file is created using a background job. I could update the view using Turbo Streams (e.g. render a 'Download Now' button). But I'd like download to automatically start 🤔

#rubyonrails

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Xavier Noria @fxn.bsky.social · May 15

Namespaces 101

During the last days I have done an immersion into namespaces, the new big feature that is coming in Ruby.

Here's a digested mental model for you all.

gist.github.com/fxn/86ad8584...

namespaces.md

GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

gist.github.com

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nateberkopec.bsky.social @nateberkopec.bsky.social · May 14

Incredibly common Rails perf anti-pattern:

Rails.cache.fetch([complicated,cache,key], expires_in: random_interval) do
dog_of_a_SQL_query
end

Cache hitrate: 10% (if anyone even knows what it is)

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Hans Schnedlitz @hansschnedlitz.com · May 14

Quick reminder that you should be using Jemalloc 👀

#rubyonrails #ruby

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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · May 14

Right, it was merged: github.com/ruby/ruby/pu...

Retire CGI library without `cgi/escape` by hsbt · Pull Request #13275 · ruby/ruby

https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/21258

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