CustomInkTech sponsored the RubyConf 5k in San Antonio, Texas. It was a beautiful course along the famous River Walk. The results are posted below. Special thanks to Stafford for designing the race course. And running it multiple times to set up and clean up.

Rarely do the words "open source" come to mind when the Microsoft Corporation is mentioned. As the maintainer of the SQL Server stack for both Ruby & Rails, and a long time Apple/UNIX fan, I have been engineering solutions to make working with SQL Server as easy as possible. Often times the work has required outside in hacks to a closed & proprietary set of technologies. That changed last week.

Each year, our engineers gather together for an internal conference we call Inkovate. This year, we started with a series of lightning talks. Topics included everything from emerging technologies to useful tool tips. We recorded the talks to share with the Ruby community. Inkovate 2015 was a huge success. After the lightning talks, our engineers spent 2 days hacking on anything they fancied. The results exceeded our expectations. Unleashed creativity brings true inkovation. We’ll share more about the projects in...

Sorry for the bad reference to a great U2 Album, but taking out a data center was not as an easy endeavor as it seemed. It took too much planning, coordination, prioritization and sometimes resorted to endless begging for an engineer or developer to get applications moved, but that’s another story. I’m here to share the fun of finally getting a chance to tearing down the hard work, rip out all of the well routed networking cables and pull the...

This weekend I had the pleasure of co-hosting Ruby For Good, a conference that brings programmers together to work on projects for a variety of charities and non-profit organizations. This year, adorable kittens were involved.

If you haven't noticed, the Bundler team has been on a tear lately. It's hard to keep up with the pace of the 1.10.x releases. Along with improvements, they have been adding features. One that you might have missed is the new bundler/inline and it's gemfile method. Bundler Inline allows you declare your gem dependencies "inline" instead of a Gemfile. This is perfect for single file scripts. Everything can be contained in a single file, no Gemfile, no bundle install,...

One of the new features of Rails 5 will be granular SQL logging so you can easily see SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, and TRANSACTION statements in your log. For example: But why let Rails 5 have all the fun? Today I created a gem that allows you to leverage this feature now. The gem is currently compatible and tested for Rails 3.2 to 4.2. Get it here and happy logging!