https://johnhame.link/tags/ruby/ Recent content in Ruby on John Hamelink Hugo en John hamelink Thu, 06 Jul 2023 22:00:00 +0100 https://johnhame.link/posts/tweaking-emacs-for-ruby-development-in-2023/ Thu, 06 Jul 2023 22:00:00 +0100 https://johnhame.link/posts/tweaking-emacs-for-ruby-development-in-2023/ <h2 id="preamble">Preamble</h2> <p>Since I started a new job in April, I&rsquo;ve been spending the majority of my time with legacy Ruby code for the first time since 2017 (I&rsquo;d been mainly working on Elixir and Typescript codebases between then and now).</p> <p>Before my start-date at the new job, I spent some time setting up a basic Emacs configuration for Ruby. I&rsquo;d made a good start, but with all those <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_unknown_unknowns#Origins" title="I&#39;m not a fan of Mr Rumsfeld by any stretch, but it&#39;s a useful phrase when thinking about project management I think.">unknown unknowns</a> swimming around, I was only able to make vague assumptions about what I needed. I&rsquo;ve since done a bunch more tweaking to get a configuration that works well with the development environment in this company.</p>