KatPadi's Point

Tag: ruby

Handling Errors Gracefully

Sometimes it makes sense to treat errors as part of an application’s “valid” flow of events. Meaning, expected errors should not necessarily make your code go crazy when random errors are raised. With that in mind, I created a way to implement some kind of “Result Object” by rescuing StandardError instances and handling these errors…

My Twitter Favoriter Experiment

I wanted to prove that favoriting semi-random tweets increases followers in Twitter. I wrote a “bot” that  favorites tweets that contain hashtags that I’m interested in. For my own peace of mind, I didn’t choose mainstream or popular hashtags (ie. #KathNiel) because I wanted to have a set of quality followers. I’m sure there have…