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Andy Croll

andycroll@ruby.social

<p>He’s CTO at CoverageBook, Rubyist, Conference Organizer of Brighton Ruby, Author, Speaker, Bootstrapper &amp; Twin Dad.</p>

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  • Post #1785195

    Can recommend the embassy at #RailsWorld courtesy of @avo_hq

  • Post #1755336

    Some quick reflections on #RailsWorld from the Rails Foundation. In short. I had a nice time. And I made some nineties-era web buttons on the way home. https://andycroll.com/ruby/rails-world-2025/

  • Post #1755335

    Moved house. After three brutal days of boxes it’s a new (birthday) walk to work along the seafront. Brighton is an excellent (albeit windy) city, I encourage all my friends to move here.

  • Post #1468202

    And this equally applies to conference talks. You need a story and not just release notes. https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/why-stories-make-you-smarter-than-self-help-books

  • Post #1468201

    I made some lovely Ruby loving foxes on a t-shirt in tribute to the long lost _why. https://rubytshirts.com/products/_why-the-foxes

  • Post #1468200

    Could not be more deserved. Hooray for @marcoroth https://rubyonrails.org/2025/12/17/marco-roth-2025-rails-luminary

  • Post #915280

    Array#rfind arrived with Ruby 4.0 https://andycroll.com/ruby/find-the-last-matching-element-with-rfind/

  • Post #915279

    My blog. I’ll extract it. Needs tailwind cli though.

  • Post #915278

    Just to say we&amp;#39;re up to a very healthly 2,400+ organisations on https://usingrails.com. You can thank @marcoroth for a bunch of those :-)

  • Post #915277

    Shared the tailwind and jekyll no build setup I use on my site. https://andycroll.com/ruby/simple-tailwind-css-4-setup-for-jekyll/

  • Post #915276

    @emma we need an answer for this I think https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:22hy5gbfkvemyfgcuobnogjb/post/3mdrlhgyf5k24

  • Post #915275

    If you&amp;#39;re within my age demographic and you lived in Europe... then I don&amp;#39;t need to explain this. https://rubytshirts.com/products/workbench

  • Post #915274

    Also I published this on a readable Rails-ism https://andycroll.com/ruby/prefer-in-over-include-for-readable-conditions/

  • Post #915273

    Wrote again on a nice little Rails-enabled inquiry pattern. https://andycroll.com/ruby/use-stringinquirer-for-readable-predicate-methods/

  • Post #915272

    to_param lets you customize your URLs https://andycroll.com/ruby/to-param-seo-friendly-urls/

  • Post #915271

    Now Heroku is drifting away... running your own servers is fine right? https://rubytshirts.com/products/servers-dont-bite

  • Post #915270

    In a world of AI there&amp;#39;s one father-figure 90s robot we can believe in. https://rubytshirts.com/products/thumbs-up

  • Post #915269

    The dive into inflections continues. https://andycroll.com/ruby/handle-uncountable-words-in-rails-inflections/

  • Post #915268

    The inflection trilogy ends. (Much less cool than it sounds, but still useful) https://andycroll.com/ruby/teach-rails-irregular-plurals-with-inflections/