I wrote some more as a way to fight jet lag, hopefully it's still readable 😅: byroot.github.io/ruby/bundler...

Your indefatigable persistence against the struggle is real and respected.

Thank goodness we managed to leave the autocorrect to “ducking” era in time.

Fact

Brighton Ruby Conference

I'm excited for this year's Brighton Ruby lineup! It'll be my first trip to Brighton. RUBYISTS ASSEMMMMBLE

brightonruby.com

Partying hard.

These are “never done event” people.

Solid logo

Excited to be speaking at @brightonruby.com this June! Looks like quite a lineup for Ruby/Rails builders.

I'll also be hosting a workshop the day before on AI adoption with your team.

Ruby friends — who's going?

Teach Rails Irregular Plurals with Inflections Use inflect.irregular to teach Rails non-standard plurals like criterion/criteria.

The inflection trilogy ends.
(Much less cool than it sounds, but still useful)
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I fucking _loved_ that thing.

Capitalising the words doesn’t make it any clearer or a good idea.

Handle Uncountable Words in Rails Inflections Use inflect.uncountable to stop Rails pluralising words like staff, metadata, and feedback.

The dive into inflections continues.
andycroll.com/ruby/handle...

Booked to speak at 2 conferences this year. Both in Europe! Topic: AI (obviously).

Wish me luck writing talks that aren't out-dated by the time I'm on stage 3 and 6 months from now 😬

200 Passports leaving for Brighton Ruby

Closed my rings today. And try and keep the levels super-achievable as long as I leave the house!

Plus resist the urge to treat anything as a must do. Hard though. I’m a checklist finisher.

This brought to you by a brutal 45 minute treadmill sprints workout on Apple Fitness.

You finished your social post at least…

Quite

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In a world of AI there's one father-figure 90s robot we can believe in.
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Now Heroku is drifting away... running your own servers is fine right?
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Customize Model URLs with to_param Override to_param to control how your Rails models appear in URLs—use slugs, hide IDs, or combine both.

to_param lets you customize your URLs
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Whoop OG Gameboy. And a “shelf of Apple peripheral shame”.

Give this to me. 😉

(In ten days when I’m back from my holidays)

Use StringInquirer for Readable Predicate Methods The same pattern Rails uses for Rails.env.production?

Wrote again on a nice little Rails-enabled inquiry pattern.
andycroll.com/ruby/use-st...

See you for our weekly call where you read them out.

Of course. Email me?

Prefer in? Over include? for Readable Conditions A more natural way to check if a value is in a collection

Also I published this on a readable Rails-ism
andycroll.com/ruby/prefer...

Thought you said you hadn’t fully retired 😉

Discovering Hong Kong or taking photos of my new fit from rubytshirts.com? Gimme both! #_why

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