The People v Turbolinks

This week, as part of the Flatiron Students Present series I gave a presentation on the new features coming in Rails 5.. There’s some really intriguing stuff, highlighted by the Railsified websocket goodness of Action Cable. Nestled in there is the news of Turbolinks 3 Turbolinks 5, the latest version of a Rails feature I was totally unfamiliar with.

PSTORE and me: An uneasy alliance

EDIT: I literally wrote this post the day before I learned what SQL was. Oh the folly of youth.

In the beginning…

Earlier in the week, when working on a little NBA player stats CLI program, I had my first run in with Ruby’s PSTORE class - a mechanism that allows you store Ruby objects that persist between instances of the program running.