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Starting from grubby, a minimal Ruby static site generator written in a plain unrolled style, this Noteflakes post compares it to how ERB and Papercraft compile templates, then proposes a quote/unquote mechanism for Ruby code generation and discusses walking the line between Rails-style abstraction and machine performance.
17 min · 3,875 words
A Type Stronger than the Sum of its Components
Richard Schneeman walks through a Ruby type design that becomes more powerful than the sum of its parts—how carefully composed types can encode invariants that ad-hoc checks miss.
4 min · 946 words