Engineering articles, notes, and lessons learned from the Crisalix team on software, infrastructure, QA, and 3D.
Álvaro Fernández-Alonso Araluce in ruby, gems, open-source, tutorial, building-a-gem-serie, rubygems, maintenance
· 6 min readFinal article in the series about building Ruby gems. We’ve demystified gems, seen their anatomy, built an API wrapper, and tested everything. Now it’s time for the final step: putting it out in the world. From your folder to RubyGems You have...
Álvaro Fernández-Alonso Araluce in ruby, gems, open-source, tutorial, building-a-gem-serie, testing, minitest
· 6 min readFourth article in the series about building Ruby gems. We already have a working wrapper with the Client → Resource → Object pattern. Now we need to make sure it works. And that it keeps working tomorrow. The elephant in the room Your gem makes...
Álvaro Fernández-Alonso Araluce in ruby, gems, open-source, tutorial, building-a-gem-serie, api, design-patterns
· 7 min readThird article in the series about building Ruby gems. We already know what a gem is and how it’s structured. Now let’s fill it with code. This is the article where we build something real. The real need I had a project that needed to integrate...
Álvaro Fernández-Alonso Araluce in ruby, gems, open-source, tutorial, building-a-gem-serie, bundler, rubygems
· 6 min readSecond article in the series about building Ruby gems. In the previous article we talked about breaking the mental barrier. Now let’s open the box and see what’s inside. One command and you have a gem Seriously, open your terminal and type: bundle...
Álvaro Fernández-Alonso Araluce in ruby, gems, open-source, tutorial, building-a-gem-serie, beginners, career
· 4 min readThis is the first article in a 5-part series about creating, testing, and publishing Ruby gems. I’ll walk you through my real experience building Calendlyr, an API wrapper for Calendly that’s been running in production for 5 years. The perception...
In the 3D world, it is not only about rendering models (as seen in Hello, (3D) World!), but also about modifying them. However, it can be difficult to make fine adjustments without causing visible artifacts in the model. Proportional Editing, as named...