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Josua Schmid

Oh yes! I also forgot to mention Marco's type fusion: https://github.com/marcoroth/type_fusion

Feb 10

Feb 10

space ≠ space

Does it seem as if there was still space left on your hard disk, but somehow there isn’t? You’re probably out of Inodes.

Aug 25, 2021

Aug 25, 2021

Conventionally-Typed Ruby

The Ruby programming language is made for people, type annotations are not.

Jul 14, 2021

Conventionally-Typed Ruby

Jul 14, 2021

Cecina recipe

I tried to make Cecina.

May 6, 2021

Cecina recipe

May 6, 2021

nodejs ≠ node

Update to ExecJS master branch or even better: to webpacker

Sep 22, 2020

Sep 22, 2020

Don’t prefer `let!` over `let`

This is an answer to the blog post of Jason Swett about the difference of let and let! in RSpec. I felt that it needs some clarification.

Sep 14, 2020

Sep 14, 2020

Comments in Rails migrations

Use change_column_comment and change_table_comment to add comments to your database.

Jun 30, 2020

Comments in Rails migrations

Jun 30, 2020

Better Appsignal logs for Her

Use Faraday request instrumentation for Appsignal for a more useful event timeline.

Apr 30, 2020

Better Appsignal logs for Her

Apr 30, 2020

RSpec is_anticipated helper

This is about a little helper method called “is_anticipated” which complements “is_expected” — a trial to make RSpec even nicer.

Mar 30, 2020

RSpec is_anticipated helper

Mar 30, 2020

Moving faster than light

Two not totally unrelated thought experiments

Dec 11, 2019

Moving faster than light

Dec 11, 2019

Why not move everything to virtuality?

I recently read the AI Revolution Series and the Elon Musk Series on WaitButWhy.

Dec 11, 2019

Why not move everything to virtuality?

Dec 11, 2019

A hidden Ruby Regex feature

Did you know that you can write Ruby Regex with the brackets operator directly on Strings? Embrace more functional code!

Aug 29, 2019

A hidden Ruby Regex feature

Aug 29, 2019

Conflicting WebMock and VCR

For a long time I used the Ruby gem WebMock to stub out HTTP requests in my test suites. It allows you to fine-tune what requests go out…

Aug 12, 2019

Conflicting WebMock and VCR

Aug 12, 2019

Execute SQL in Rails migrations

You may come across the following irreversible Rails migration. It deletes all rows in a table.

Jul 2, 2019

Execute SQL in Rails migrations

Jul 2, 2019

Default gems hinder Bundler

I use Bundler to manage my Ruby gem (packages). They are collected and configured in a Gemfile. Bundler reads this file, resolves…

Feb 7, 2019

Feb 7, 2019

Path handler in MacOSX terminal

In the terminal we often see URLs or file paths. We mark them and copy‑and‑paste them into our tools of choice. You probably already knew…

Jan 31, 2019

Path handler in MacOSX terminal

Jan 31, 2019

Installing old Homebrew formulas

Homebrew is a handy package manager for Mac OSX. You can easily install software the “apt-get install”-way by executing short commands in…

Jan 11, 2019

Installing old Homebrew formulas

Jan 11, 2019

Test induced design damage

Oh no… not again. It’s almost dangerous to touch this subject as a professional. Let’s see if I turn into stone.

Jun 19, 2018

Test induced design damage

Jun 19, 2018

Building capybara-webkit 0.x

Capybara is not only an animal but also a very powerful system testing library for Ruby. It uses a browser (also headless) to click through…

May 24, 2018

Building capybara-webkit 0.x

May 24, 2018

Josua Schmid

Josua Schmid

I engineer software and craft beer, or the other way around. Find my old blog here: https://web.archive.org/web/20181108025110/http://blog.schmijos.ch/

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