Ruby type conversion
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Ruby type conversion
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Re: Ruby type conversion
#2This is very detailed. I remember discovering many of these Ruby conventions when I answered a stackoverflow question about to_a vs to_ary years ago. It goes even deeper than I imagined, that bit about sleep was especially interesting.
Re: Ruby type conversion
#3This is a great resource, as a career-long ruby developer I've even forgot about some of these (coerce method). Good to keep this info around!
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#4This is a great resource, as a career-long ruby developer I've even forgot about some of these (coerce method). Good to keep this info around!
I'm switching to a ruby career. Any advice for a young rubyist?
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#5Rather tangential, however Ruby seems to exist entirely on the backs of Shopify now [1], and every Ruby-related post on here goes back to a Shopify employee. Did the founder of Shopify start with Ruby so now they’re wed to it culturally? Each of these Ruby posts has a gross mismatch between engagement and score.
I apologize for the digression, but Shopify today reminds me of some Delphi/object pascal shops I’d engaged with earlier in my career. Where the tooling became the primary focus and identity of the staff rather than the solutions (a sort of cargo culting off of that initial business success), and that focus meant the firm ended up being staffed with what could best be described as big fish in little ponds (e.g. the “Delphi expert” who was the guy who stuck with Delphi after everyone else had moved on to other technologies), in a recursive loop.
[1] - other successful companies started with Ruby / RoR (though in many cases it could be called legacy), but right now it seems that 100% of Ruby advocacy comes out of the halls of Shopify. The firm has turned to evangelism.
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#6Rather tangential, however Ruby seems to exist entirely on the backs of Shopify now [1], and every Ruby-related post on here goes back to a Shopify employee. Did the founder of Shopify start with Ruby so now they’re wed to it culturally? Each of these Ruby posts has a gross mismatch between engagement and score. I apologize for the digression, but Shopify today reminds me of some Delphi/object pascal shops I’d engage…
There are plenty of large companies in the Ruby space. Some of the more notable ones being Shopify, Stripe, Airbnb, and GitHub.
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#8Rather tangential, however Ruby seems to exist entirely on the backs of Shopify now [1], and every Ruby-related post on here goes back to a Shopify employee. Did the founder of Shopify start with Ruby so now they’re wed to it culturally? Each of these Ruby posts has a gross mismatch between engagement and score. I apologize for the digression, but Shopify today reminds me of some Delphi/object pascal shops I’d engage…
I don't think that's totally true, Stripe has Sorbet for example. On the other hand, Ruby seem to be less popular than before and almost no one uses it in Europe. But Ruby 3 seems very nice. It's hard to predict its future.
Re: Ruby type conversion
#9Rather tangential, however Ruby seems to exist entirely on the backs of Shopify now [1], and every Ruby-related post on here goes back to a Shopify employee. Did the founder of Shopify start with Ruby so now they’re wed to it culturally? Each of these Ruby posts has a gross mismatch between engagement and score. I apologize for the digression, but Shopify today reminds me of some Delphi/object pascal shops I’d engage…
> right now it seems that 100% of Ruby advocacy comes out of the halls of Shopify
While we're sharing anecdotes: I like to advocate for Ruby but have never been a Shopify employee or even customer :)
e: where 'customer' == seller
Re: Ruby type conversion
#10Rather tangential, however Ruby seems to exist entirely on the backs of Shopify now [1], and every Ruby-related post on here goes back to a Shopify employee. Did the founder of Shopify start with Ruby so now they’re wed to it culturally? Each of these Ruby posts has a gross mismatch between engagement and score. I apologize for the digression, but Shopify today reminds me of some Delphi/object pascal shops I’d engage…
There are plenty of large companies in the Ruby space. Some of the more notable ones being Shopify, Stripe, Airbnb, and GitHub.
Also Discourse is written in ruby.