I got an invite for Atom yesterday. I spent a few hours using it, as opposed to Sublime Text 2, my current editor of choice. Here are the features that I consider that my editor must-have and how Atom handles them.

Last Saturday I had the pleasure to attend LA Ruby Conf for the first time. The conference has two days of workshops, which I did not attend and one day of single-track talks.

I previously wrote about Sandi Metz’ proposed rules. I had the pleasure of hearing her talk about them last week at the monthly SDRuby meeting.

Recently I came across a spec that didn’t seem to be executing the assertion block passed in to the raise_error expectation. Leaving the bare essentials for the example:

I love DelayedJob. It’s my go-to-gem for background processing in Rails, mainly because it works with whatever data store your project already has in place. No need to bring a different dependency just for background processing. However, using Delayed::Worker in threads is problematic.