Ryan Bigg
ryanbigg.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2010
Ryan Bigg, a Ruby and Rails developer and author, writes about Rails, open source, hiring, and Ruby tooling.
What HN saysHN links his Ubuntu, Ruby, RVM and Rails setup guide, which one commenter found extremely useful, plus his Rails asset pipeline guide and MIME types post.
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- 1Quitting Open Source4 people · 32 points · first shared 2015 · 2 comments on HN
- 2Ubuntu, Ruby, RVM, Rails, and You3 people · 79 points · first shared 2010 · 39 comments on HN
- 3Hiring Juniors3 people · 6 points · first shared 2016 · 2 comments on HN
- 4Want it? Give. (Plea to Rails Developers)2 people · 86 points · first shared 2010 · 41 comments on HN
- 5My thoughts on Hanami2 people · 5 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 6Rails' CurrentAttributes Considered Harmful2 people · 4 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 7Rails Guides: Asset Pipeline2 people · 1 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 8Congratulations2 people · 1 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 9MacBook Pro Keyboard Drives Me Crazy1 people · 655 points · first shared 2019 · 575 comments on HN
- 10Death of Matt Lightner (creator of Site5)1 people · 86 points · first shared 2012 · 24 comments on HN
- 11A Replacement for Strong Parameters1 people · 37 points · first shared 2022 · 29 comments on HN
- 12Dollars to Documentation - Donate to help document Rails1 people · 34 points · first shared 2010 · 3 comments on HN
- 13Authentication doesn't belong in your Rails Engine1 people · 28 points · first shared 2012 · 5 comments on HN
- 14When rails 3 is due?1 people · 14 points · first shared 2010 · 8 comments on HN
- 15One year with the Ergodox EZ1 people · 10 points · first shared 2024 · 6 comments on HN
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ryanbigg · 2025-04-10
On the topic of copy editing you raise: I wrote a book in DocBook for Manning in 2010. DocBook is XML, so I structured it with opening / end tags on their own line, content in the middle. As you would with a HTML document.
After copy editing multiple chapters, they sent it back to me with all the content on a single line. I was so incredibly upset that they ditched all my painstaking format that I almost abandoned the project there + then.
It sounds like from your experience that it has barely changed. I ended up moving to self-publishing so I have a greater control over the whole process. I wrote it up long-form here: https://ryanbigg.com/2015/08/my-self-publishing-success-story
mcx · 2013-07-14
I follow this guide to set up rvm, ruby, and rails: http://ryanbigg.com/2010/12/ubuntu-ruby-rvm-rails-and-you/
cosgroveb · 2011-01-21
I posted the following guide the other day:
http://ryanbigg.com/2010/12/ubuntu-ruby-rvm-rails-and-you
Sadly it languished with no upvotes. :( I found it extremely useful, however!
e12e · 2021-09-15
Ruby? No. Rails? Perhaps. (Both github and gitlab are built with ruby on rails).
For an old post on a somewhat related topic, see:
https://ryanbigg.com/2009/04/how-rails-works-2-mime-types-respond_to
I could imagine the mix of rails #respond_to and "file extensions" at the end of urls might make a mess (think /users/profile/smith.html vs /smith vs /smith.json vs /smith.txt - essentially what might have been /smith?format=json etc).
Ed: current documentation:
https://apidock.com/rails/v6.1.3.1/ActionController/MimeResponds/respo…
rubymaverick · 2011-08-29
Check out the Ruby on Rails guide on the subject:
http://ryanbigg.com/guides/asset_pipeline.html
DHH also talked a lot about it in his keynote this year at RailsConf:
http://www.rubyinside.com/dhh-keynote-streaming-live-from-railsconf-20…
cosmok · 2010-04-11
I know it can be frustrating to have a software not work as expected but, I don't think Ubuntu is doing too bad in this respect (I have been using Kubuntu @ work and Fedora at home for the past 2-3 years). The author IMO is a bit too harsh on Ubuntu. On a somewhat related note, I think people should also read this while passing judgement on another OSS (esp bug fixes):
http://ryanbigg.com/2010/04/want-it-give/
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1255905