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Rubber Duck Debugging in public

Talking to a rubber duck about your code can get you far, but won’t take others with you. Learn how to turn a lonely debugging technique into a knowledge-sharing tool.
Neil Carvalho
December 27, 2023
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
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
Inspecting Ruby's inspect method

Because 0x0000000103f70c98 never helped anyone.
Louis Antonopoulos and Steve Polito
June 20, 2023
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
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
A journey towards better Ruby on Rails testing practices

Testing Ruby on Rails and avoiding RSpec and FactoryBot anti-patterns.
Rémy Hannequin
March 14, 2023
- Testing
- Ruby
- Development
- Factory
- Ruby On Rails
- RSpec
- Factory Bot
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
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
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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