Dom Christie

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In Ruby, curly braces can be omitted from hashes not only when the hash is the last argument of a method, but also when it’s the last item in an array: [1, 2, three: :four]. Neat!

✍️ typography

Bricolage looks great: A free and open source variable font with French attitude and British mannerisms across 3 axis: weight, width & optical size

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Run migrations after a deploy to Heroku. In Procfile, add a release command:

web: bin/rails server -p $PORT
release: rails db:migrate

Learnt via Justin Searls’s The Selfish Programmer talk.

πŸ›€ ruby on rails

RailsInspire: a directory of patterns for Ruby on Rails apps. I particularly like the interface. It simply highlights the files needed to implement the pattern, including explanatory annotations. Really nice work from Jeremy Smith.

process

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome.

Samuel Johnson