Ruby Gotcha: Environment Variables Are Always Strings

I recently ran into a small but frustrating production bug caused by a common Ruby mistake. I had a feature controlled by an environment variable: DISABLE_THING=false The application restarted …

Ruby on Rails Internals

For this talk at DevMeetup, I walked through how Rails works internally - tracing the full code journey from Rack all the way through to Railties. The session covers the entire Rails request lifecycle …