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February 20, 2015 by Daniel P. Clark

Some Basic Ruby Tools for Sniffing out Errors

Needing to know what’s going on under the hood is a big part to solving problems and challenges. For the longest time I only ever used print statements to output to the console the state of something at a specific point. That’s all I ever used in Python. But sometimes you need to do a…

January 16, 2015 by Daniel P. Clark

The 500 Millisecond Rails Partial

Click… 15 seconds later: “Something went wrong”. So that happened. I’d written a web based email client and it was taking too long to load. If it reached 15 seconds it would quit because of the servers time-out setting. Here’s my journey into finding out what went down. First things first, I needed to know…