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  • Ruby Exception Handling Practice: Be As Specific As Possible

    Avdi Grimm covers Ruby exception handling in way more detail in Exceptional Ruby (not an affiliate link!) and you should check it out Ruby Exception Handling In Ruby, you should already be aware that catching Exception is a blunt instrument that captures error states that generally should not be handled by your code. This is…

  • 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…

  • The Ruby Ecosystem in 2025

    A realistic assessment of Ruby tools and frameworks that stood the test of time Twenty years after Ruby on Rails burst onto the scene with David Heinemeier Hansson’s famous “Build a blog in 15 minutes” screencast, the Ruby ecosystem has matured, consolidated, and—contrary to the perennial “Ruby is dead” proclamations—quietly thrived in its particular niches.…