Jorge Manrubia

A programmer who writes about software development and many other topics. I work at 37signals.

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March 14, 2021

Extracting, not inventing

Documenting the pull request to add encryption to Active Record brought me memories about the origin of each feature: • Support for unencrypted data: HEY was already used by staff and some beta users when we added encryption. • Option to downcase: emails are not case-sensitive. • Option to ignore case: labels are case-insensitive when ...
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March 6, 2021

Smelling Rails smells

Shopify recently published Upgrow: A sustainable architecture for Ruby on Rails. It describes a set of architectural principles to build Rails applications and announces a companion future gem. I was surprised by seeing Shopify endorse this approach. The proposed patterns aren't new. Many people have advocated for them since Rails is R...
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