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The Core Purpose of an Agile Methodology: Incremental Validation and Course Correction – A Reference Guide
There’s a persistent confusion in the software development world about what makes an agile methodology valuable. Teams often focus on ceremonies, tools, and processes while missing the fundamental purpose. The value in agile development methodologies is in their incremental validation of course correctness and ability to adjust time/quality/cost to new information as soon as possible.…
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Ruby Gem Dependency Constraints: Stop Making This Harder Than It Needs To Be
The Ruby community has a collective anxiety disorder about gem versioning. Half the ecosystem pins everything to exact versions out of paranoia, the other half uses >= and hopes for the best, and meanwhile we’re all stuck resolving dependency conflicts that shouldn’t exist. Here’s what actually works, based on where your code lives in the…
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The Truth About Conditional Dependencies in Ruby Gems: They Don’t Work the Way You Think
If you’ve ever tried to add conditional logic to your gem’s dependencies based on Ruby version or platform, you’ve probably been surprised when things didn’t work as expected. Here’s the uncomfortable truth: conditional dependencies in gemspecs are evaluated at build time, not at install time. This single fact undermines most attempts to create “smart” ruby…