RailsConf 2017: A Survey of Surprisingly Difficult Things by Alex Boster
Channel: Confreaks
Date: 2017-05-19

RailsConf 2017: A Survey of Surprisingly Difficult Things by Alex Boster

Many seemingly simple "real-world" things end up being much more complicated than anticipated, especially if it's a developer's first time dealing with that particular thing. Classic examples include money and currency, time, addresses, human names, and so on. We will survey a number of these common areas and the state of best practices, or lack thereof, for handling them in Rails.