Justin Weiss
justinweiss.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2014
Justin Weiss is a Rails developer who writes about Ruby and Rails techniques and wrote the book Practicing Rails.
What HN saysHN links it for its monkey-patching post as an example of Ruby culture. The author says he writes for people who struggle to build with Rails.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Simple Memoization Patterns in Ruby2 people · 3 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 23 ways to monkey-patch without making a mess2 people · 2 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 33 ways to monkey-patch without making a mess2 people · 2 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 4Show HN: Practicing Rails, a book about learning Rails without being overwhelmed1 people · 14 points · first shared 2015 · 3 comments on HN
- 5Show HN: Practicing Rails: Learn Rails without being overwhelmed1 people · 11 points · first shared 2014 · 6 comments on HN
- 6How Much Time Does Rendering a Partial in Rails Really Take?1 people · 8 points · first shared 2014 · 1 comments on HN
- 7How do gems work?1 people · 7 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 8When Edge Cases Poke Holes in Your Perfect Solution1 people · 7 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 9Where are all the intermediate Rails resources?1 people · 6 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 10When is an ActiveRecord model too fat?1 people · 6 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 11Shaking off your TDD fatigue1 people · 4 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 12Each or else1 people · 3 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 13The lesser-known features in Rails 4.21 people · 3 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 14How to debug Ruby performance problems in production – Weissblog1 people · 2 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 15Debug a stuck cache with a simple code change1 people · 2 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
justinweiss · 2015-02-11
I've been writing posts about Rails on http://www.justinweiss.com for a little over a year now, and I've heard from so many people that are excited about Rails, that have bought all kinds of videos and tutorials and courses and bootcamps, but just can't build their own projects.
So, I wrote a book to help. It's not so much a Rails tutorial as it is a guide to programming, project management, and motivation, using Rails as a medium.
I'm happy to answer any questions you have!
mikepurvis · 2019-05-23
Ruby has a culture around it too: https://www.justinweiss.com/articles/3-ways-to-monkey-patch-without-ma…
And you can get some of the patching effect in any language with uniform function/method calls, though typically with a little more scoping and thus less ability to inflict unexpected side effects: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Function_Call_Syntax