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Temporarily disabling warnings in Ruby
I’ve been doing a lot of pontification lately. Time for some code. Warnings are a hot topic in the Ruby community. Some folks love ‘em. Some folks hate ‘em. What we can all agree on is that they do us … Continue reading
Get Two Free Months of Hoptoad with Exceptional Ruby
If you’re reading this blog there’s a good chance you already know about Hoptoad. For those who don’t know, Hoptoad is a hosted service that does application error logging. You configure your Ruby on Rails, iOS (or other kinds of … Continue reading
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Tagged errors, Exception handling, exceptions, failures, Hoptoad, reporting, Ruby on Rails
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“Exceptional Ruby” Now Available!
I am very, very excited to announce that the final version of my new eBook “Exceptional Ruby” is now available for immediate purchase. Originally born out of the realization that I had more material about Ruby failure handling than I … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Ruby
Tagged eBook, errors, Exception handling, fail-fast, failures, programming, raise, rescue, ruby
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Last Chance for Exceptional Ruby Beta
As you probably know I’m writing an eBook called “Exceptional Ruby”, based on my talk of the same name. For a couple of months now it has been available as a Beta release, as I work on adding the last … Continue reading
“Exceptional Ruby” Video and Beta eBook!
Two weeks ago at Magic Ruby in Orlando I delivered a talk called “Exceptional Ruby”, about working with exceptions and failures in Ruby. People seemed to like it. I have two related announcements today: A self-made video of the talk … Continue reading
Thank You, Magic Ruby!
Thanks for all the kind comments on my Exceptional Ruby talk! A few notes for those visiting because of the talk: References, source code, links to further reading, and yes, slides can be found here: Exceptional Ruby Notes. Please review … Continue reading
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Tagged conferences, errors, exceptions, failures, magicruby, ruby, talks
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Hammertime: An interactive error console for Ruby
Users of Lisp and Smalltalk environments are used to having some pretty powerful tools for debugging exceptions in their code. For instance, here’s the dialog I see when I try to do execute some bad code in Squeak: Ruby users … Continue reading
