Ben Sheldon

If you know of any open-source program using Ractors, let me know, I'd be interested to try it with ractor-shim.

How short lived to make passing it to a ractor be worth it? That's the like real examples I'm looking for.

Anything you see moving to Ractors right now? I can't think of any large manipulations that fit into the constraints in the context of the products I work on. Like maybe a ViewComponent but getting the data into a state to ractorize seems exhausting. Or how to invert flow of child queues on parent.

GitHub - mperham/ratomic: Ractor-safe mutable data structures for Ruby Ractor-safe mutable data structures for Ruby. Contribute to mperham/ratomic development by creating an account on GitHub.

1.1 I think it was ratomic gem that surprised me: github.com/mperham/rato...

1.2 my real question I guess was: what's changed in Ruby 3.5 that makes this possible? (Or easier)

Ooh! Questions:

- the last time we looked at this Ractors required a c extension to work. Did that all get into Ruby 3.5?

- Say I already have calculated fibonacci.... what else might I use this for?

that's good stuff! post more bangers as you find them.

Yep. to_i on a AS::Duration does the same math you did. Just a little more wordy

You could do: + 7.days.to_i

Also TIL. Also, wouldn't you want it to end at the same local time? (Like is the test assertion itself wrong)

There is no Microsoft stack. MS does not care what GitHub's stack is. A few decisions have influence (Azure dropping their Ruby SDK) but GH can trivially work around that.

imo, GitHub is same as Jean described about Shopify: the eng leaders they have (ic & mgt) simply want to do something else

... and obvs given this thread that didn't happen 🫠

Though now that's all in my rearview and I feel ok, given what I knew at the time and my skills and abilities and so forth.

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And a majority of GitHub's engineers work in Ruby; the largest language cohort internally. And my intention (and sorta my role, though with downleveling who knows) was to turn that into a cohesive *program* (both in concrete resources but also as a conceptual narrative) across and outside the co

Which isn't to be defensive about it. But to explain the perspective from inside the company.

It's not *just* a communications problem, but I think examples of what it looks like to be contributing to Open Source internally were really hard to get written and published through the company blog.

I think GitHub contributes a lot; they do conf and meetup sponsorships and employees do work upstream and there is a team that focuses on enabling that (Ruby Architecture, my former team).

And I'm ashamed by everything that I wasn't able to achieve. And publicizing it was its own challenge.

accepts_nested_attributes_for. And probably some name/value buttons to differentiate the different actions in a controller. That's about it.

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They are dialed.

Good show? I'm going Thursday.

Hello, Ruby World! sfruby.com

Avoid creating controller _helper modules until modification by jhawthorn · Pull Request #40204 · rails/rails In applications which use :all helpers (the default), most controllers won't be making modifications to their _helpers module. In CRuby this created many ICLASS objects which could cause a larg...

A little bit of context in here: github.com/rails/rails/...

Whenever `helper` or `helper_method` is used, the controller ends up with its own custom set of classes for holding the custom set of helper methods.

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Feature request: Ability to target multiple frames · Issue #475 · hotwired/turbo Currently Turbo frames is amazing at handling HTML updates back to the UI when specifying a single frame target to update on the page. In a lot of cases this is all you need however in more complex...

Unfortunately not: github.com/hotwired/tur...

Replace two different turbo-frame from one response · Issue #56 · hotwired/turbo Situation: There is a profile form where the user can update his own name. There is, in the same page, a navigation bar where the username is shown. When the user submit the profile form, the respo...

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I've been looking for someone else doing a good job of this: github.com/hotwired/tur...

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Oooh! Are you using streams to do the Refresh All?

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Totally. Cursor has a thing called "cursorfile" that is the system prompt for a project. Unfortunately it can't reference files (there was an earlier feature that could but it disappeared in a recent update)

Copilot Workspace is web only: https://githubnext.com/projects/copilot-workspace

I'm rereading "Radical Focus" to sharpen up my dislike of how OKRs are practiced.

They're same same. I just tried Windsurf again this past weekend and couldn't really tell the difference.

Copilot Workspaces (disclosure: I work at GitHub) is kinda different. It exposes the chain-of-thought steps as editable UI, rather than a chat prompt. More precise maybe, but takes more time.

😄 That's Cursor.ai.

A screenshot of an application in which it has been typed "Update document_needs_spec.rb to match the behavior of document_needs.rb"

I guess this is how we code now 🫠

tbh I'm not unhappy with the result, just disappointed in myself.