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Coding in the Rain

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Coding in the Rain is a personal blog at ascarter.net about programming and career. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Modern Ruby Development”. The last post was in 2014, but the archive is still widely read.

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Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog's Ruby development guide as a tooling primer. One commenter, coming from Python, said it covered everything they wanted while learning Ruby best practices.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Modern Ruby Development
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-09-27

What Hacker News says?

  1. I followed this while learning best practices for Ruby: http://ascarter.net/2011/09/25/modern-ruby-development.html It seemed to cover everything that I wanted, coming from a familiar Python background of pip/virtualenv/etc. For reference here's the associated HN commentary: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3044908

    Comment linking /2011/09/25/modern-ruby-development.html

    on “Python Ecosystem - An Introduction”
  2. Submitted Modern Ruby Development as a story · 83 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted State of the Technical Interview as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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