Gowalla's New Engineering Blog
25 Oct 2011Gowalla started and engineering blog, highlighting our open source projects and giving all of us devs a special place to talk about things we care about.
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A Daft proc-macro trick: How to Emit Partial-Code + Errors
Update (2025/04/02): The change I suggested below was merged in PR #64. It’s pretty neat I went from knowing nothing about this project to contributing to it in the span of a single blog post.
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Installing the sassc Ruby gem on a Mac. A debugging story
I’m not exactly sure about the timeline, but at some point,
gem install sasscstopped working for me on my Mac (ARM). Initially, I thought this was because that gem was no longer maintained, and the last release was in 2020, but I was wrong. It’s 100% installable today. In this post I’ll explain some things about native extensions libraries in Ruby and in the process tell you how to fix this error below if you’re getting it on your Mac: -
My Red Hot ADHD Programming 'Affliction'
Sorry, Dave, ADHD is real, and (not acknowledging it) can hurt you. Hi. I’m Richard. I’m a Ruby Core Contributor. I also code in Rust, and enjoy giving talks and writing books about How to (Contribute to) Open Source. I was diagnosed with ADHD in my late 30’s. What does it mean that I was “diagnosed” with ADHD? Am I simply a speed junkie? What even is ADHD, and why is there so much misinformation and misunderstanding about it? Keep reading to find out.
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RubyConf 2024: Cloud Native Buildpack Hackday (and other Ruby deploy tools, too!)
I’ve spent the last decade+ working on Ruby deploy tooling, including (but not limited to) the Heroku classic and upcoming Cloud Native Buildpack. If you want to contribute to a Ruby deployment or packaging tool (even if it’s not one I maintain), I can help. If you want to learn more about Cloud Native Buildpacks (CNBs) and maybe get a green square on GitHub (or TWO!), keep reading for more resources.
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Docker without Dockerfile: Build a Ruby on Rails application image in 5 minutes with Cloud Native Buildpacks (CNB)
I love the power of containers, but I’ve never loved
Dockerfile. In this post we’ll build a working OCI image of a Ruby on Rails application that can run locally without the need to write or maintain a Dockerfile. You will learn about the Cloud Native Buildpack (CNB) ecosystem, and how to utilize the pack CLI to build images. Let’s get to it!