Franck Verrot

Lately, I’ve spent some time building a new tiny voice model.

Last month I wrote about convergence engineering.

Everyone is writing about loops right now.

Quick follow-up to the college search post.

College search is a 10-dimensional optimization problem that families solve with spreadsheets, gut feelings, and way too many browser tabs.

This blog has been running Jekyll since 2014.

Originally posted as a thread on X.

Originally posted as a thread on X.

Originally posted as a thread on X.

Quick thoughts on Sorbet, that has been announced at RubyKaigi 2018 and once again in the 2019 edition, the type-checker for Ruby.

Request Routing in the scheduler/container world is an ongoing challenge, with a lot of different and competing solutions that tries to provide a solution.

I build products regularly, most of them don’t survive their prototype phases.

Having spent a lot of time working with the Hashicorp stack lately, I have been working a lot with the HashiCorp stack lately, mostly with Consul, Nomad, and soon Vault.

Happy New Year!

Ruby became a more stable and mature language over the years.

After recently benchmarking PostgreSQL to find out if some of the techniques we used were efficient, I decided to look at the usage of a controversed Ruby feature: method_missing.

Executing a single query doesn’t always literally mean executing exactly ONE query.

Rubygems has been made extensible by the usage of plugins.

This blog used to run Octopress and I blame myself for not updating it as much as it should have been updated.

Ruby 2.1.0 will be released at the end of the year and among other features, a change done in the parser caught my eyes…

A couple of days ago I’ve decided to drop my old username CesarioGW to become franckverrot.

Last weekend I had my first Startup Weekend experience.

ActiveValidators 1.9.0 is out!

TL;DR Passing an NSManagedObjectContext in each and every NSViewController that needs CoreData can be done by different means, but some are frowned upon.

ActiveValidators 1.3.0 has been released!

TL;DR Rake > 0.8.7 has a handy Rake::Task#locations method that makes it damn easy to know where a task is defined or enhanced.

Que de monde pour ce nouvel apéro Ruby à Lyon.

Encore de nouvelles têtes!

I made this plugin when we migrated to Rails 3.

Bien que cela fasse plus d’un mois que la dernière rencontre des “Rubyistes” Lyonnais (disons Rhône-Alpins) ait eu lieu, je ne trouve que maintenant (à moins d’une semaine du prochain apéro) le temps de le commenter… Je pense qu’il s’agit du premier apéro…

Trying out a new blog engine.

The RubyCamp Lyon 2010 took place yesterday, Saturday 17th.

Rails 3 brings a lot of useful features.

Thanks to Luciano (@lucianosb) Live-Note has got its own Google Chrome Extension.

If you ever encountered this when installing JRuby on Ubuntu: Fatal: GCJ (GNU Compiler for Java) is not supported by JRuby.

Moving our current projects codebase from Subversion to Git was a nice move.

I was about to call this article “Gemcutter Webhooks on Google Wave (and Google App Engine) part 2” but then I realized that it was no more about that I wanted to focus on, but more on the Wave part (sorry Rubyists friends, but I had fun with Python (as l…

With the previous versions of Rails we have the choice between storing the translations into a YAML file (one per language) and standard Ruby Hashes.

One would easily wonder why in hell someone else would want to do that, but it’s actually often because you are forced to.

Working with Ruby in my day job made me try other exciting things, especially with Google App Engine.

So what are Gemcutter webhooks?