https://miles.georgi.foo Ruby programming blog by Miles Georgi. Covers Ruby, programming, software engineering, and the Foobara software framework. en-us Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://miles.georgi.foo/simplecov-coverage-for-ractors-with-shmactor https://miles.georgi.foo/simplecov-coverage-for-ractors-with-shmactor Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Miles Georgi Currently, SimpleCov doesn't properly tally coverage for lines executed in non-main ractors. The shmactor gem offers a workaround for now. ruby ractors https://miles.georgi.foo/quickly-add-foobara-to-an-existing-rails-app https://miles.georgi.foo/quickly-add-foobara-to-an-existing-rails-app Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Miles Georgi A short tutorial on quickly adding Foobara to an existing Rails app for use as a service-object layer foobara ruby https://miles.georgi.foo/ruby-constants-have-non-deterministic-order https://miles.georgi.foo/ruby-constants-have-non-deterministic-order Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Miles Georgi A test that only failed on macOS surprised me by revealing that Ruby returns constants in non-deterministic order ruby https://miles.georgi.foo/ext-tutorial https://miles.georgi.foo/ext-tutorial Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT Miles Georgi A tutorial for using externals (ext) to manage subprojects across git and subversion with a single svn:externals-like workflow. ext externals ruby git subversion https://miles.georgi.foo/why-ext https://miles.georgi.foo/why-ext Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT Miles Georgi Why I created ext? To give me an SCM-agnostic, svn:externals-like workflow. ext externals ruby git subversion