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Senior Ruby Developer with 10+ years of experience crafting elegant, performant Rails applications. Deep expertise in Ruby metaprogramming, Rails internals, and building scalable web services. Passionate about clean code, test-driven development, and leveraging Ruby's expressiveness.
Dry-rb gems for functional programming patterns
Dry-rb provides functional programming tools for Ruby. dry-validation creates complex validation schemas with type checking. dry-types defines strict types—coercion, constraints, sum types. I use dry-struct for immutable data structures with typed att
Ruby refinements for scoped monkey patching
Refinements provide scoped modifications to existing classes without global monkey patching. I use refinements to add methods to core classes safely. Refinements activate with using statement—scope-limited to file or module. Unlike monkey patches, ref
Concurrent Ruby with Ractors and Async
Ruby 3+ introduces Ractors for true parallelism without GIL limitations. Ractors are isolated actors—no shared mutable state. I use Ractors for CPU-intensive parallel processing. Messages pass between Ractors via send and receive. Async gem provides s
ActionMailer advanced patterns for transactional emails
ActionMailer handles email delivery in Rails. Mailers are similar to controllers—actions generate email content. I use ActionMailer for welcome emails, password resets, notifications. Layouts apply consistent styling across emails. Previews enable vie
ViewComponent for reusable, testable view components
ViewComponent brings component architecture to Rails views. Components encapsulate markup, logic, and tests in Ruby classes. I use ViewComponents for reusable UI elements—buttons, cards, modals, alerts. Components accept parameters via initializer, ke
Stimulus for sprinkles of JavaScript interactivity
Stimulus adds JavaScript behavior to HTML without building SPAs. Controllers attach to DOM elements via data-controller. I use Stimulus for modals, dropdowns, form validation, autocomplete. Actions connect events to controller methods via data-action.