Setting Up Elasticsearch Synonyms

Here at Paperless Post, we’re in the process of upgrading our search engine from Thinking Sphinx to Elasticsearch to provide better and faster search results to our users — more on this in a future blog post! As a result, we wanted to take some time to explore the…

Paperless Post Tech Talks: Brian Kernighan

Paperless Post is happy to host a Q&A with Brian Kernighan on Tuesday, October 20th from 6–8pm in the Paperless Post offices. Food and drinks will be served!

Asking Questions For Developers

Growing up, I asked a lot of questions. Because children are evil, I was made fun of relentlessly for this. Luckily for me, the mocking of my peers drove me to develop more covert and efficient strategies for asking questions, rather than stopping me entirely.

RailsConf 2015 Roundup

This year, seven of us attended RailsConf 2015 which was held in Atlanta. It was a great experience especially since it was a big group of us. We listened to interesting talks, discussed with each other about what we’ve learned, and met a lot of people from the Ruby community. Here are…

Different Methods for Merging Ruby Hashes

Today, a co-worker was reviewing some code of mine similar to this:

foo({a: 1}.merge(b: 2))

He suggested that using merge! would be faster, as it would save instantiating a new hash. I was skeptical but…