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Ten Years of Nerd Club

3 months ago by Aaron Patterson on Tender Love Making.
The Seattle Ruby Brigade, (the first Ruby Bridage), is having a party to celebrating it’s 10th anniversary, and you should attend! The party will...

My Jerky Setup

4 months ago by Aaron Patterson on Tender Love Making.
I love making beef jerky. I started making jerky by using Alton Brown’s recipe, but I found his jerky making apparatus to be lacking in a few key...

Profiling Rails startup with DTrace

6 months ago by Aaron Patterson on Tender Love Making.
TL;DR: I’m adding DTrace probes to Ruby, and I used those to make a 6% performance improvement to rake environment. Lately I’ve been working...

PSA: The number of gems installed on your system can impact rails boot time

6 months ago by Aaron Patterson on Tender Love Making.
Just a PSA: the number of gems you have installed on your system will impact your rails boot time. Why is this? When you require a file, rubygems must find...

Connection Management in ActiveRecord

7 months ago by Aaron Patterson on Tender Love Making.
OMG! Happy Thursday! I am trying to be totally enthusiastic, but the truth is that I have a cold, so there will be fewer uppercase letters and exclamation...

I want DTrace probes in Ruby

11 months ago by Aaron Patterson on Tender Love Making.
Recently I was debugging a performance regression in Rails 3.1. The ticket reported for the regression just indicated a speed problem. Namely allocating...

TIL: It’s OK to return nil from to_ary

11 months ago by Aaron Patterson on Tender Love Making.
tl;dr: You can return nil from to_ary and to_a. Today I discovered that it’s OK for to_ary to return nil. Ruby spec tests this behavior, and the ruby...

Mechanize 2.0.0 has been released!

11 months ago by Aaron Patterson on Tender Love Making.
ZOMG! Thanks to @drbrain, mechanize 2.0.0 has been released! See the full announcement here!...

Rack API is awkward

~1 year ago by Aaron Patterson on Tender Love Making.
TL;DR: Rack API is poor when you consider streaming response bodies. ZOMG!!!! HAPPY THURSDAY!!!! Maybe I shouldn’t be so excited now. I want to talk...

RubyCommitters.org winners

over 1 year ago by Aaron Patterson on Tender Love Making.
Hi everybody! I’m going to get this over. To me, this is like removing a bandage, I must do it all at once. I’ve increased the Love Bucks, so...