The Most Prolific Web Dev Myth

Tell me if you’ve heard this before:

“It doesn’t matter that the server is slow, most of the latency will be in the db call or the network.”

I have.

This is bad for two reasons. It’s bad because the part of it that’s somewhat true, …

Why I Avoid Ruby for New Projects

1. Azure SDK for Ruby is archived: https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-ruby
2. PayPal deleted their Ruby SDK and started another one that only contains 3 of PayPal’s API endpoints at the time of writing: https://github.com/paypal/PayPal-Ruby-Server-SDK
3. Azure …

Ruby Variables: A Quick Reference

This is meant to be a quick reference to bookmark if you don’t work on Ruby code all that often, it’s not meant to be a deep dive into the language

Passing Values into Functions

There are several ways to pass values into functions.

Regular Parameter …