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Product Engineer, Ruby on Rails Developer ‣ Curator of newsletter.shortruby.com ‣ Helping #Ruby developers design better test cases at https://goodenoughtesting.com

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Lucian Ghinda @lucianghinda.com · Dec 3

Only 7 spots are still available for the #GoodEnoughWorkshop happening on 12 December at 15:00 UTC. Last days for getting the tickets with discounts!

You can buy a ticket here lu.ma/533zg5zq

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OKURA Masafumi @okuramasafumi.com · 5h

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I just setup my GitHub Sponsor page. I hope my work helps you in some ways, and I'd be so happy if you support me (or more specifically, my coffee!)

Sponsor @okuramasafumi on GitHub Sponsors

I'm OKURA Masafumi, the creator of Alba gem. Alba is the fastest JSON serializer for Ruby.

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Stan Lo @st0012.dev · 5h

🎉 Incredibly honored to be a Ruby Prize 2025 finalist! Thank you to everyone who has supported my work on IRB, RDoc, debug, ZJIT, and other Ruby projects.
See you in Matsue!

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Ruby Prize 2025 | 最終ノミネート者決定 | RubyPrize

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Lucian Ghinda @lucianghinda.com · 5h

Saved this as a note at notes.ghinda.com/post/two-id...

Two ideas from an old creativity research

Amabile, Teresa M. “A Model of Creativity and Innovation in Organizations.” Research in Organizational Behavior 10, no. 10 (January 1, 1988): 123–67. https://ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/20000708825. Here is how someone described where they were looking for inspiration: in variations and deviationsAnd then talking about their work environment they hint at something that I also talked in the past: there has to be slack time (and not time on Slack) during the work to be able to thinker with things without having the pressure of always making something that is directly productive:

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Lucian Ghinda @lucianghinda.com · 5h

2️⃣ Discussing their work environment, they seem to hint to a concept I've mentioned before: the necessity of slack time (not time spent on Slack) to experiment and innovate without the constant pressure of immediate productivity.

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Lucian Ghinda @lucianghinda.com · 5h

I reviewed a paper titled "A Model of Creativity and Innovation in Organizations" by Teresa Amabile from 1988.
Here are two quotes from 1 person part of the research (remember, this is from 1988):

1️⃣ A good reminder that ideas can be found in "variations" or "deviations"

A screenshot of a text saying: "I think of myself as someone who generally thinks along different directions than the average person. I'm always looking for the interesting twist that something might have. I'm not interested in the normal direction that a given piece of work might progress into; I am more interested in the variations, the deviations that might result."

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Joel Drapper 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @joel.drapper.me · 9h

YAML is weird. And not in a good way

That’s why I maintain Ruby Schema, a collection of config schemas for the Ruby community.

Our i18n schema prevents this boolean problem, helping the YAML LSP show errors.

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Lucian Ghinda @lucianghinda.com · 12h

Ruby on Rails uses the gem psych to load the YAML files for locales transforming values like Yes/No, yes/no, YES/NO, On/Off, on/off, ON/OFF to be converted to booleans as defined in YAML v1.1

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Lucian Ghinda @lucianghinda.com · 12h

Wrote a bit more about this here: allaboutcoding.ghinda.com/ruby-on-rai...

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Lucian Ghinda @lucianghinda.com · 12h

The difference is documented in psych gem test suite for example:

Lucian Ghinda @lucianghinda.com · 12h

But there is a difference between Psych and YAML 1.1 with regards of how to parse Y, y, N, n:

Screenshot showing the difference between Psych and YAML

Lucian Ghinda @lucianghinda.com · 12h

Ruby `psych` gem implements YAML version 1.1 that defines a Boolean like this:

Lucian Ghinda @lucianghinda.com · 12h

The following values will be converted to FalseClass:

Lucian Ghinda @lucianghinda.com · 12h

Ruby on Rails used through i18n gem the psych gem for loading YAML and here is how it loads values for TrueClass boolean:

Lucian Ghinda @lucianghinda.com · 12h

Ruby on Rails uses the gem psych to load the YAML files for locales transforming values like Yes/No, yes/no, YES/NO, On/Off, on/off, ON/OFF to be converted to booleans as defined in YAML v1.1

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The Pragmatic Bookshelf ✅ @pragprog.com · 1d

“Rails is an opinionated framework, and this is an opinionated book.” ~Introduction

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IndieRails @indierails.com · 1d

Episode 65 is now registered! ✍️ We chat with @anthonyeden.bsky.social about building @dnsimple.bsky.social, the DNS/domain industry, the importance of the Ruby community, remote teams, and life/work on hard mode. Anthony, thanks again for the enlightening discussion! 🙏
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IndieRails | Anthony Eden - Making Business Look Simple

In this episode we’re excited to be talking with Anthony Eden, founder & CEO of DNSimple.For those who haven’t come across it yet, DNSimple is a service that makes managing domains and DNS simple a...

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