Paul Hoffer

Software engineer working in Ruby, Elixir, and Crystal. Focusing in performance, quality, and making stuff better.

ruby

Case insensitive emails and usernames with Postgres

April 16, 2019 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

March 4, 2016 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...