Finding the Road Back Home: Building a Clean PostGIS Gem for Rails 8
How I escaped the zoo of monkey patches and built a clean, Rails 8-friendly PostGIS adapter gem that actually works with modern Rails.
Posts tagged "gems"
The Raw, Frustrating Journey Behind Rails Lens: A Decade of Code Rage, AI Sparks, and Finally Breaking Free
The unfiltered story of Rails Lens: ten years of frustration, harassment, theft, and finally breaking free to build something better. From TOML discoveries to AI validation, this is how persistence beats pattern parasites.
The Environmental Deception Protocol: When Your Rails App Doesn't Know Where It Lives
Atlas Monkey crew discovers that Rails.env has been deceiving developers since 2004. When mining colonies report phantom deployment bugs across multiple "production" environments, ARIA uncovers how 847+ gems create behavioral chaos because they can't distinguish between staging, sandbox, and actual production. Captain Seuros deploys the rails_app_version Environmental Truth Protocol to end the deception.