How Ruby Interprets and Runs Your Programs
In this post we'll follow the journey of a simple program as it's lexed, parsed and compiled into bytecode. We'll use the tools that Ruby gives us to spy on the interpreter every step of the way.
Honeybadger Developer Blog
Tutorials, product info, and good advice from the Honeybadger crew.
Understanding `self` in Ruby
Many problems faced by beginning Rubyists are caused by not understanding self. Join me and take a deep dive into self in Ruby under common and uncommon conditions.
Using conditionals inside Ruby regular expressions
In this post, we'll dive into regex conditionals and discuss how to work around the limitations in Ruby's implementation of them
Benchmarking Ruby refinements
Are refinements slow? I wrote a few benchmarks to find out. The answer was surprising.
Understanding Ruby refinements and lexical scope
If you've never used Ruby's refinements, you might be surprised to learn that they're lexically scoped. We'll discuss what this means, and the implications for your code.
Monitoring for non-application errors on Heroku
Announcing Honeybadger for Java
New and improved search
Ditching your single page app for...turbolinks?
You tried turbolinks, once, and soon your app began to fail in strange and wonderful ways. But some people make it work. What's their secret? The answer is so simple, it just might amaze you.
Creating Ruby enumerators on the fly
When you treat your collections as enumerators, you get to use all your favorite functions like #map and #reduce without having to write any extra code. In this post I show you how easy it is to create enumerators on the fly, without defining extra classes or messing around with the Enumerable module.