David Bush

David Bush is a Web Developer who travels the world and writes code. His favourite languages are Clojure, Ruby and Python. He enjoys learning new technologies, beer, good food and trying new things. www.david-bush.co.uk

David's articles

Beyond Rails Abstractions: A Dive into Database Internals

Ruby

By David Bush, May 04, 2017

David Bush discusses the importance of understanding core functionality in Rails, showing how indexes work and how to implement a database by yourself.

Lexers, Parsers, and ASTs, OH MY!: How Ruby Executes

Ruby

By David Bush, December 19, 2016

Read Lexers, Parsers, and ASTs, OH MY!: How Ruby Executes and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.

Rack-App: A Performant and Pragmatic Web Microframework

Ruby

By David Bush, November 14, 2016

David Bush introduces Rack-App, a web microframework in Ruby that has a single dependency, can handle thousands of endpoints, and is among the fastest around.

Diving into How Hashes Work in Ruby

Ruby

By David Bush, October 10, 2016

David Bush dives into the internals of how hashes work in Ruby, including a neat experiment to drive home the point.

Tools for a Modern Ruby Development Setup

Ruby

By David Bush, August 25, 2016

David Bush shows you some of the development tools he uses to be more productive in Ruby.

The Ins and Outs of Debugging Ruby with Byebug

Ruby

By David Bush, August 01, 2016

David Bush shows you some basic and advanced techniques with Byebug, the definitive debugger for Ruby 2.0.