Panel:

Charles Max Wood
David Richards
Eric Berry
Catherine Meyers
Dave Kimura

Special Guests: Jared NormanIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel talks to Jared Norman about understanding your production apps. Jared has been programming since he was about 10 years old and for the past 7 years, he has been doing Ruby. These days, he runs a consultancy company called Super Good Software doing Ruby on Rails stuff and mostly eCommerce. They talk about his article You Can’t Save Everyone: Some Exceptions Should Be Left Alone, when capturing exceptions is the right way to go, developing with good visibility in mind, and more!In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Jared intro
Founder of Super Good Software
Article - You Can’t Save Everyone: Some Exceptions Should Be Left Alone
Solidus and Spree
Rescue_from Exception
Injecting special error reporting
Don’t necessarily want to rescue all exceptions
Injecting an error reporting tool
Trying to think of a good reason to rescue_from exception
Loss of visibility
Exceptional Ruby by Avdi Grimm
Ruby Rogues Episode 19
When is capturing exceptions the right way to go?
Using an exception when something is legitimately broken
project-honeypot
When exceptions are in a state that you don’t expect
Having enough information to attack problems when they arise
Dig method for hashes
Elegance of Ruby that allows you to not work as hard
Developing code for better exception handling
Developing with visibility in mind
And much, much more!

Links:

RR 373: Super Good Software/Stembolt Technologies - Understanding Your Production Apps with Jared Norman