Could not be more deserved. Hooray for @marcoroth@ruby.social
https://rubyonrails.org/2025/12/17/marco-roth-2025-rails-luminary
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Andy Croll
@andycroll@ruby.social
mastodon 4.7.3He’s CTO at CoverageBook, Rubyist, Conference Organizer of Brighton Ruby, Author, Speaker, Bootstrapper & Twin Dad.
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I made some lovely Ruby loving foxes on a t-shirt in tribute to the long lost _why.
https://rubytshirts.com/products/_why-the-foxes
Just to say we're up to a very healthly 2,400+ organisations on https://usingrails.com. You can thank @marcoroth@ruby.social for a bunch of those :-)
Array#rfind arrived with Ruby 4.0
https://andycroll.com/ruby/find-the-last-matching-element-with-rfind/
Moved house. After three brutal days of boxes it’s a new (birthday) walk to work along the seafront. Brighton is an excellent (albeit windy) city, I encourage all my friends to move here.
And this equally applies to conference talks. You need a story and not just release notes.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/why-stories-make-you-smarter-than-self-help-books
Wrote again on a nice little Rails-enabled inquiry pattern.
https://andycroll.com/ruby/use-stringinquirer-for-readable-predicate-methods/
If you're within my age demographic and you lived in Europe... then I don't need to explain this.
https://rubytshirts.com/products/workbench
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@codefolio@ruby.social Done. Brighton Ruby will have this. Noah will be missed but remembered.
Shared the tailwind and jekyll no build setup I use on my site.
https://andycroll.com/ruby/simple-tailwind-css-4-setup-for-jekyll/
My blog. I’ll extract it.
Needs tailwind cli though.
Some quick reflections on #RailsWorld from the Rails Foundation.
In short. I had a nice time. And I made some nineties-era web buttons on the way home.
https://andycroll.com/ruby/rails-world-2025/
Can recommend the embassy at #RailsWorld courtesy of @avo_hq@ruby.social
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@codefolio@ruby.social Done. Please let me know if I need to change the wording to something you’d prefer.
https://ti.to/goodscary/brightonruby-2025
Also I published this on a readable Rails-ism
https://andycroll.com/ruby/prefer-in-over-include-for-readable-conditions/
@emma@ruby.social we need an answer for this I think https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:22hy5gbfkvemyfgcuobnogjb/post/3mdrlhgyf5k24
Now Heroku is drifting away... running your own servers is fine right?
https://rubytshirts.com/products/servers-dont-bite
The inflection trilogy ends.
(Much less cool than it sounds, but still useful)
https://andycroll.com/ruby/teach-rails-irregular-plurals-with-inflections/
The dive into inflections continues.
https://andycroll.com/ruby/handle-uncountable-words-in-rails-inflections/
In a world of AI there's one father-figure 90s robot we can believe in.
https://rubytshirts.com/products/thumbs-up