Empty Ruby Templates

Rails has a neat template feature that lets you customise newly created rails apps. There is also the thoughbot suspenders gem that gives a very opinionated set of configuration options for new rai...

07 May 2020

Google-Fu: My RSpec script test is failing!

Is RSpec failing when you try to test a script with RSpec via the system command? Here, for the benefit of any googlers who who can’t get their ruby script working properly, is a possible fix to yo...

22 Dec 2019

Custom Gemfiles

When I’m writing or collaborating on a gem, I like to use a couple of useful lint tools every now and then. These are good for finding code smells, untested code or hinky syntax. There are a bunch...

24 Jul 2015

Gemfile Constraints

You can specify various different constraints in your Gemfiles when requiring other gems: ~> # the pessimistic version constraint =, >, <, >= # obvious, right? ...

02 May 2014