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Jose Farias @jose.omg.lol · 17/04/2025

Yeah I guess that also works! Too verbose for my taste though 😄. You’re not alone—someone else brought it up on _the other site_.

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Jose Farias @jose.omg.lol · 17/04/2025

re: `protected` methods—there’s usually so few of them you can see the access modifier immediately anyway. But I’d consider them an edge case.

Jose Farias @jose.omg.lol · 17/04/2025

Indenting private methods tells you what the intended access policy is without having to orient yourself inside the class. Specially useful when reviewing diffs and you’re not even shown the full context by default. This is why it’s my preference in Ruby.

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Oh no! Does it happen upon submitting the form, or when attempting to confirm the subscription?

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Thanks for reading! Phoenix contexts are interesting. While they make it obvious where to put things, my opinion is in the end they’re unnecessary overhead in an object oriented codebase. They’re well suited for FP though. Might write more about that in the future. Good topic!

Mil gracias Julia! 😄

Thanks Stephan! Yeah I’ll probably add that soon. This is the reason I’ve avoided it: bsky.app/profile/jose...

Wild! I actually did not know about this. And here I am reinventing the wheel. Thanks for sharing!

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I’ve just added a mailing list form if you’re interested! Check out part 2 (just posted), it’s at the bottom of the post. Thanks for reading!

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Right! I’d actually suggest putting it in models (even if more than one) over using service objects. But we’ll get to that further in the series. I just published what that might look like in part 2. Thanks for reading!

RSS is a great idea, thanks Rosa! I just wired up buttondown for a mailing list. Check out part 2 (just posted) if you’d like to sign up 😄 The reason I’ve avoided RSS/email before is I don’t want to make sure things look good there before posting 😅. But I might just link to my site instead.

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Of course! That’s why I tried the service initially. No worries about what happened way back when. It was years ago. Just wired things up again and it seems to be working beautifully. Appreciate you offering!

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How to move logic out of your jobs and into your domain model.

Here’s post 2 in my Object-Oriented Rails series. Post 1 argued business logic doesn’t belong in active jobs. But it lacked some code examples. Now we put pen to paper explaining how to move the logic into the model and out of your job. Also, email newsletter is live! jose.omg.lol/posts/just-w...

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Just Write English

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Jose Farias @jose.omg.lol · 09/03/2025

I did try buttondown once but got turned off from it when my single test email landed in spam. I’ll give it another chance though. I probably just caught a temporary bug. Nbd. Really just looking for something that’ll let me turn off open rate tracking and won’t sell my subscriber’s data.

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Jose Farias @jose.omg.lol · 09/03/2025

I really need to get on that 😅. Really I’m just avoiding having to choose a privacy-conscious mailing list provider. I don’t know of any offhand and researching seems like super dull work.

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Jose Farias @jose.omg.lol · 09/03/2025

Right! Choosing between those `_at` columns and a model would be a great topic for one of these. Same goes for the many-to-many relationships. I’ll keep those in mind!

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Jose Farias @jose.omg.lol · 08/03/2025

I’m kicking off a series of blog posts called "object-oriented Rails". First off — why business logic doesn’t belong in active jobs. Let me know what you think! jose.omg.lol/posts/its-no...

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It’s none of their business

Why business logic doesn’t belong in active jobs.

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Jose Farias @jose.omg.lol · 08/03/2025

Thanks Chris! I’m really excited about this 💪

Jose Farias @jose.omg.lol · 08/03/2025

After 2.5 years at 37signals I’m moving on to a new role as a Senior Software Engineer at Harvest. I start next week! 😄

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Jose Farias @jose.omg.lol · 15/12/2024

Guess it was necessary lol

Two commit messages.
First one reads: "Unnecessary include". CI failed.
Second one reverts the first one. CI passes.

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Jose Farias @jose.omg.lol · 12/12/2024

Yes! I think a lambda would’ve been fine, too.

Jose Farias @jose.omg.lol · 12/12/2024

I think that important condition is fine to be implied as long as the context is at-hand (rarely is). That said, I don’t feel particularly strong about the name of that method. I wouldn’t insist on it. Mostly trying to illustrate the main point that code can be context-aware and thus simpler.

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Totally! I have a similar history with them. A sharp tool for sure. But when it’s the one for the job, it’s great. Easy to misuse though, was just talking about this with @avi.nyc

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I’d encourage you (or anyone reading) to implement side-by-side and compare! 😄 Consider the conditional is coupled to the active record’s lifecycle – by design of ActiveModel::Dirty, not anything to do with our code.

Oh that’s pretty far from what I’d recommend tbh. But that’s alright! In this case the context is readily available at a glance, which means the code can be context-aware and thus simple. I’d suggest waiting until it’s actually complex before complicating further.

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Of course! Ideally I wouldn’t be changing code I don’t understand, but I get that’s not always possible due to time constraints. In that case it’s not only the inherent complexity, but my own lack of context that will likely complicate my code. That’s a price to weigh and pay!

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Jose Farias @jose.omg.lol · 26/11/2024

Wrote some words about this code snippet _Code can be context-aware — because programmers can (and should be) context-aware_

class Project < ApplicationRecord
after_save_commit :grant_access_to_everyone

private
def grant_access_to_everyone
accesses.grant_to(account.users) if all_access_previously_changed?(to: true)
end
end

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Bluesky is probably the best use I've given my omg lol subdomain

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Jose Farias @jose.omg.lol · 17/11/2024

Really enjoying this setup which lets me route LLM prompts to different models by flipping a switch. Makes it easy to experiment.

use_o1: &use_o1
provider: OpenAI
model: o1-preview

use_claude_sonnet: &use_claude_sonnet
provider: Anthropic
model: claude-3-5-sonnet

determine_a_b_c:
<<: *use_o1
messages: # ...

write_x_y_z:
<<: *use_claude_sonnet
system: # ...
messages: # ...

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Jose Farias @jose.omg.lol · 13/11/2024

Started at 1, leveled up to 4

ActionService.call(...)
ActionPerformer.perform_now(...)
ThingDoer.new(...).do_thing
Thing.new(...).act

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Jose Farias @jose.omg.lol · 12/11/2024

Been building a ton for AI lately. It still involves lots of traditional coding. Architecture, modeling, provisioning, monitoring, it's almost like building a regular app — with many more network calls.

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Jose Farias @jose.omg.lol · 04/11/2024

That looks great Andrea! I’m glad you’re enjoying it! Hoping to make a new release soon 😄