Syed Aslam

blogs from Bangalore

A Preflight You Can Run
rails-preflight reads a Rails app and lists what stands between it and the next Rails version. Before releasing it, I checked it against Rails upgrades that already happened in Mastodon, Discourse and Forem.
Posted on 9 October 2026 | 11:30 pm
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When Should You Raise an Exception in Ruby?
How to decide between raising an exception and returning a value in Ruby by separating expected outcomes from failures that break a method's contract.
Posted on 27 August 2026 | 12:30 am
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Git Rerere: Resolve That Conflict Once
Learn how Git rerere records and reuses conflict resolutions across rebases, merges, cherry-picks, stacked pull requests, and long-running branches.
Posted on 20 August 2026 | 1:00 am
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