palladius/ruby-coding

Ruby Best Practices

• RVM/rbenv: Use a version manager for Ruby.
• StandardRB: Prefer StandardRB for linting and formatting.
• Bundler: Always use Bundler for dependency management.

Riccardo opinionations

1. I really love the =begin/=end even if nobody uses it. In python, I love a big '''....''' Multiline at the beginning of a file explain what this file is for, and same with ruby, so I can survive this ugly =begin/=end to reach the same goal: **Add a big multiline at the beginning of everything, just after the shebang and an empty line with what the app does!
2. Minimalism is important.
3. Beauty is important. If your code is minimal and beautiful, it's easier to read and to maintain.
4. Do not monkey patch unless it's the ONLY way or unless it's incredibly minimalistic/beautiful to do.
5. Riccardo likes it colorful and emojiful. I like lolcat and rainbow gems.
6. Use env ruby as shebang.
7. I don't speak JavaScirpt and friends => reduce JS to a minimum, use Ruby whenever you can, in doubt. If you have to use JS, make sure to document throughly like I was a 13yr old.

Ruby idiosyncrasies

• I love the symbols. Whenever you have a small constant string, like "foobar" use :foobar if it makes sense.
• I love BLOCKs. Whenever a variable is repeated many times, feel free to use them for readability.
• I tolerate =begin/-end -> but only on top of ruby files to explain what they do.

Image Generation of Ruby Logo (NanoBanana)

I find it DIFFICULT to design ruby logos, so I found two ways to create ruby logos:

• Brilliant-cut ruby (maybe add pentagonal to it or vertical view, as opposed to aerial view which is wrong)
• Red diamond (while more imprecise, this usually gets the job done and gets the right color!)

If you experiment with this and find a better implementation which works, PLEASE ask Riccardo to piggyback it into this skill!

Versions

• Ruby 3.4+
• Rails 8.1+

CLIs

I also love powerful CLIs with multiple options, particularly:

• -h|--help
• -n|--dryrun (usually disabled unless the script is DANGEROUS then should be enabled by default)
• A default invocation should be SAFE, like listing, and only a further knowledgeable invocation should allow me to damage/mutate the system.