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RR 373: Super Good Software/Stembolt Technologies - Understanding Your Production Apps with Jared Norman

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Panel:

  • Charles Max Wood
  • David Richards
  • Eric Berry
  • Catherine Meyers
  • Dave Kimura

    • Special Guests: Jared Norman

    In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel talks to Jared Norman about understanding your production apps. Jared has been programming since he was about 10 years old and for the past 7 years, he has been doing Ruby. These days, he runs a consultancy company called Super Good Software doing Ruby on Rails stuff and mostly eCommerce. They talk about his article You Can’t Save Everyone: Some Exceptions Should Be Left Alone, when capturing exceptions is the right way to go, developing with good visibility in mind, and more!

    In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

    • Jared intro
    • Founder of Super Good Software
    • Article - You Can’t Save Everyone: Some Exceptions Should Be Left Alone
    • Solidus and Spree
    • Rescue_from Exception
    • Injecting special error reporting
    • Don’t necessarily want to rescue all exceptions
    • Injecting an error reporting tool
    • Trying to think of a good reason to rescue_from exception
    • Loss of visibility
    • Exceptional Ruby by Avdi Grimm
    • Ruby Rogues Episode 19
    • When is capturing exceptions the right way to go?
    • Using an exception when something is legitimately broken
    • project-honeypot
    • When exceptions are in a state that you don’t expect
    • Having enough information to attack problems when they arise
    • Dig method for hashes
    • Elegance of Ruby that allows you to not work as hard
    • Developing code for better exception handling
    • Developing with visibility in mind
    • And much, much more!

      • Links:

      • Ruby
      • Super Good Software
      • Ruby on Rails
      • Solidus
      • Spree
      • You Can’t Save Everyone: Some Exceptions Should Be Left Alone
      • Exceptional Ruby by Avdi Grimm
      • Ruby Rogues Episode 19
      • project-honeypot
      • Jared’s GitHub
      • @SuperGoodJared
      • @SuperGoodSoft

        • Sponsors

        • Sentry
        • Digital Ocean
        • FreshBooks

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                • Catherine

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