--- title: 21: As Not Miserable as You Can Be with Dave Copeland description: Dave Copeland has been a programmer and a writer for the last several,several years. He's written a few books on,on Ruby and things over the years. Copeland:... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/21-as-not-miserable-as-you-can-be-with-dave-copeland-4l9pdggel twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: 21: As Not Miserable as You Can Be with Dave Copeland | daily.dev og:description: Dave Copeland has been a programmer and a writer for the last several,several years. He's written a few books on,on Ruby and things over the years. Copeland:... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/21-as-not-miserable-as-you-can-be-with-dave-copeland-4l9pdggel og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/4l9PDggeL.png og:image:alt: 21: As Not Miserable as You Can Be with Dave Copeland og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # 21: As Not Miserable as You Can Be with Dave Copeland **[RUBYLAND](https://daily.dev/sources/rubyla)** · 45 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Dave Copeland has been a programmer and a writer for the last several,several years. He's written a few books on,on Ruby and things over the years. Copeland: "I've approached this stuff like if I learned something that seems useful to somebody else,yeah. I'd like to write it down. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#rails](https://daily.dev/tags/rails), [#ruby](https://daily.dev/tags/ruby), [#zed](https://daily.dev/tags/zed) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/21-as-not-miserable-as-you-can-be-with-dave-copeland-4l9pdggel) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"21: As Not Miserable as You Can Be with Dave Copeland","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/21-as-not-miserable-as-you-can-be-with-dave-copeland-4l9pdggel","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/21-as-not-miserable-as-you-can-be-with-dave-copeland-4l9pdggel"},"datePublished":"2023-08-03T13:25:47.080Z","dateModified":"2026-10-14T02:20:42.975Z","description":"Dave Copeland has been a programmer and a writer for the last several,several years. He's written a few books on,on Ruby and things over the years. Copeland:...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/c7739f34c9c8193ea94caa04c05d3a17?_a=AQAEufR","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/c7739f34c9c8193ea94caa04c05d3a17?_a=AQAEufR","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"RUBYLAND","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"RUBYLAND","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/rubyla","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/rubyla"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/21-as-not-miserable-as-you-can-be-with-dave-copeland-4l9pdggel","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"rails,ruby,zed","timeRequired":"PT45M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"RUBYLAND","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/rubyla"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"21: As Not Miserable as You Can Be with Dave Copeland"}]} ```