25 Jul 2020
Yesterday I was reading this twitter thread, where Janko Marohnić, the maintainer of Shrine, who has recently integrated rodauth in Rails and is preparing a series of articles about it, describes the internals of devise, the most popular authentication gem for Ruby on Rails, as “making every mistake in the book”, claiming that rodauth, the most advanced authentication framework for ruby, is much better because its internals are “easier to understand”, thereby sparking some controversy and replies, with some people taking issue with these claims, and also with his approach of criticizing another gem because of “look how awful its internals look like”.
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17 Nov 2019
When I first started working on httpx, the mission was clear: make an easy-to-use open-source HTTP client that could support both legacy and future versions of the protocol, and all, or at least most, of its quirks.
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30 Oct 2019
I’ve been recently working on CSV generation with ruby in my day job, in order to solve a bottleneck we found because of a DB table, whose number or rows grew too large for the infrastructure to handle our poorly optimized code. This led me in a journey of discovery on how to use and play with raw ruby APIs to solve a complex problem.
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10 Feb 2019
When I first started working on httpx, I wanted to support as many HTTP features and corner-cases as possible. Although I wasn’t exhaustively devouring the RFCs looking for things to implement, I was rather hoping that my experience with and knowledge about different http tools (cURL, postman, different http libraries from different languages) could help me narrow them down.
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09 Jan 2019
First of all, welcome. This is the first post about HTTPX, the ruby http client library for the future.
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