Paul Hoffer

Software developer bouncing between Ruby, Elixir, and Crystal. I like to tackle big problems and work on random projects.

ruby

Case insensitive emails and usernames with Postgres

11 minute read

TLDR: Use case insensitive text (citext) in Postgres, and don’t worry about email/usernames in application code.

Smoothly upgrade did_you_mean gem for Ruby 2.3

less than 1 minute read

A lot of Rails apps are using the gem did_you_mean to help during development. Most of these apps are probably going to run into an issue when upgrading to R...