Ruby is all about simplicity. Make simple things simple, right? So how come we have to deal with all this complexity when we run Ruby? This is how I made my life slightly easier and got some really sweet benefits as a result.
Most of my time at my current job has been spent refactoring our affiliates API. When I started, it was a series of disorganized Rails apps in a single Git repo, one solely for the backend and meant to push sales leads to our main web application, and the other solely as a frontend "dashboard" to that API, where the affiliates and the folks working in operations can see statistics on and make changes to affiliate accounts. In order to accomplish this, the past programmer had the genius idea of separating out the entire model structure into a gem, which further complicated the matter, leading to strange errors, security flaws, and flat-out unimplemented garbage code.
It's certainly been a while, hasn't it? I've been busy with gigs and vacation, so there's been little time to blog. I have been working on stuff...including the foundation of a record label (which I'll talk about in a future post) and maintaining the Wonder Bars' official website.