...written years ago, this is still relevant today.

Hello everyone. In this episode, I will walk you through a tiny feature implementation in a ruby on rails engine (aka gem or library). This is a part of the Annesque email suite - you can read more on the project homepage. 

Good software deserves good documentation. Great engineering isn't just about writing code. It's also about sharing their knowledge and making their expertise useful.

Revised and updated 2026-07-26. 

I have made the decision to use PHP as part of my overall stack, along with ruby, javascript, and python. The main reason is that there has been a lot of great software written in PHP, and I want to use it. However, after leaving the PHP world for Ruby, and then coming back to it, I see many annoying little things that bother me in PHP. In this article, I rant about some of them.

The month is almost over, and I haven't done a site-updates post. So here it is, now.