solnic.eu Blog Github Twitter 8 Things I Learned During 8 Years of Ruby and Rails Posted by solnic on Mar 4 2015 Exactly 8 years ago I started working professionally as a rails developer. I’ve spent a lot of time working for various clients, on various projects - from small green-field apps to 5+ year old rails monstrosities. In addition to Rails development I got involved in OSS. Back in 2011 I joined DataMapper core team, a couple years later I started working on ROM project and effectively stopped working on DataMapper. During this time I’ve learned a lot and I was lucky to be able to work with some of the brightest people in the ruby community. My experiences have had a significant impact on how I work, what I do, and why . Today I decided to list 8 things that I learned that have either changed the way I work with Ruby or they’ve set a direction for the future. It’s not a deep ...