Joel BlumDemand for Ruby on Rails is Still HugeTL;DR Looking at job postings, Rails is more popular than Django, Laravel or Express. By a lot. If you specifically measure startup cities…Jun 17, 201811Jun 17, 201811
Joel BlumCleaner and More Maintainable RSpecSome random gotchas I had lately when working with RSpec that may help you out in avoiding mistakes and DRY up your specs:Apr 29, 2018Apr 29, 2018
Joel BlumRails is not opinionated enoughOne of the best features of Rails is it’s an opinionated framework.Mar 27, 20182Mar 27, 20182
Joel BlumRails is Magical? Maybe You’re ScaredIt was both funny and sad seeing a colleague of mine taking a deep dive into our Rails project, after having worked mainly in c++ for 9…Feb 17, 201810Feb 17, 201810
Joel BlumIs Rails Still Popular in 2018?Update (06–17–2018): Looking at job postings, the results for Rails are much better than StackoverflowFeb 3, 20182Feb 3, 20182
Joel BlumIs my programming career safe?From time to time I read about the next big thing that may come and kill all our jobs. Programmers aren’t alone in having this fear as the…Aug 28, 2017Aug 28, 2017
Joel BlumRuby Symbols, The Good and Bad PartsRuby Symbols are all good and fun but if you’re not careful they can bite you in the a**.Aug 11, 20172Aug 11, 20172