Toby Osbourn

Tech Stack Toby uses most often

Right now Toby is most interested in the following languages;

• Ruby
• Ruby on Rails
• JavaScript
• CSS

He has a firm grounding in HTML, PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Git, Jekyll, and more. He can turn his hand to most things.

Toby on Social Media

If you want to chat or connect on social media, here are the best options;

• Twitter
• LinkedIn

Articles Toby has written

• How to ignore Bullet in RSpec tests
  Using Bullet during a test can pick up mistakes but also has false negatives; here is an easy way to ignore them
• How we used Nokogiri to fix a sizing issue in YouTube's oEmbed
  At some point, one of our calls to YouTube's oEmbed endpoint was returning videos way too small; we fixed in in our Rails application by using Nokogiri
• How to comment Rails migrations
  We recently learned how you could apply comments to your migrations in Rails
• Four tools I use to keep projects on track
  Incomplete projects are the worst; here I discuss my workflow and tools to try and complete a project as soon as possible
• Adding a service worker to Jekyll
  Here is how we added a service worker to this very site
• Running Rails migrations automatically on Heroku
  How you can tell Heroku to automatically run your Rails migration (and how to do it manually if you need)
• SEO for Ruby on Rails projects
  How to do technical SEO with your Ruby on Rails application
• Recent News Coverage
  We did our first bit of PR, here is how it went
• Speed up pasting text into Rails console
  Recently we had to copy and paste large amounts of text into a ruby console and we found a pretty quick way to do it
• A quick tip to speed up bundle installs
  Use more computing power to install gems faster