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  1. Ruby HTML Sanitization with Loofah

    Need to do some HTML sanitization, but Rails ActionView Sanitize Helpers are not good enough? Read this post to learn how to do it with Loofah.

    Stefanni Brasil
    November 24, 2023
    • Ruby
    • Web
    • Development
  2. Running old Ruby versions on Apple Silicon by fully emulating x86-64

    I’ve been upgrading an old Rails 3.2 app and Ruby 2.0 doesn’t work on Apple Silicon. I solved it with full virtualization of x86-64.

    Chad Pytel
    October 4, 2023
    • Ruby
    • Development
  3. Inspecting Ruby's inspect method

    Because 0x0000000103f70c98 never helped anyone.

    Louis Antonopoulos and Steve Polito
    June 20, 2023
    • Ruby
    • Development
    • Debugging
  4. 4 Strategies To Remove Dead Code from your Ruby App

    How much does it cost you to carry dead code? How do you find and remove zombie Ruby code? Use these 4 strategies to kill out all the dead code in your Ruby application.

    Stefanni Brasil
    June 6, 2023
    • Ruby
    • Rails
    • Development
  5. Error Messages Are Our Friends

    This article is about how to understand and embrace error messages as tools to help us find issues in our code.

    Crystal Williams-Brown
    April 3, 2023
    • Error Handling
    • Error
    • Debugging
    • Development
  6. A journey towards better testing practices

    Testing anti-patterns I learned to stay away from over the years.

    Rémy Hannequin
    March 14, 2023
    • Testing
    • Ruby
    • Development
  7. Case Equality Operator in Ruby

    An introduction to the === method in Ruby, and how it works in case expressions and beyond them.

    Neil Carvalho
    December 19, 2022
    • Ruby
    • Development
  8. Histogram Distribution in Ruby is Double Tally

    Using #tally to calculate the distribution of letters in a piece of text.

    Joël Quenneville
    October 31, 2022
    • Ruby
    • Development
  9. enum VS enum VS enum - Enumeration, Enumerator & Enumerable

    How do enums works in Ruby, and what they actually are.

    Fernando Marques
    October 4, 2022
    • Enum
    • Enumerable
    • Enumerator
    • Enumeration
    • Design Pattern
    • PostgreSQL
    • Ruby
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  10. Using a Dependency Graph to Visualize RSpec let

    A visual answer to the question “what data is created when I execute this test?”.

    Joël Quenneville
    October 3, 2022
    • Development
    • Web
    • Ruby
    • Rails
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