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Teach your models to act, not just be

…or end up hunting for logic in jobs and controllers.
Matheus Richard
February 6, 2026
AI in Focus: Refactoring Rails with AI tools

Exploring how Github Copilot can help identify and fix Ruby on Rails AntiPatterns, and the challenges of using AI for complex refactoring tasks.
Chad Pytel, Sarah Lima & Kate Young
July 22, 2025
Avoiding N+1 queries the Railsy way with strict loading

Need to catch N+1 queries without adding any extra dependencies to your project? Strict Loading makes it effortless, but your configurations need to be set up correctly to avoid unexpected behaviors.
Trésor Bireke
April 7, 2025
- Ruby
- Rails
- Refactoring
- Development
Reasons not to refactor

Refactoring is great and most developers should refactor more, but there are times when it is not appropriate. Ironically, if you’re aware of these, you may find yourself refactoring even more often than before.
Fritz Meissner
February 4, 2025
- Refactoring
- Good Code
Introducing the Noisy Animals kata

The Noisy Animals kata is designed to help developers think about the process of improving bad code.
Fritz Meissner
January 24, 2025
- Refactoring
- Ruby
What happens when we misuse refactoring in conversation?

Refactoring is essential for software teams to remain effective, but the concept is often misused in conversation to describe work that is not refactoring. Here are some thoughts on what goes wrong when we do this.
Fritz Meissner
January 21, 2025
Wrap your dependencies

It will make your code more flexible and easier to maintain.
Matheus Richard
August 26, 2024
- Refactoring
- Good Code
Keeping it simple

A reminder that code is a step in a process, not an end in itself.
Matheus Richard
December 14, 2022
- Ruby
- Refactoring
Write Readable Code

Techniques and reasons to optimize your code for people, not metrics.
Edward Loveall
March 18, 2022
Pipelining without pipes

Ruby, functional programming, how to build operation pipelines, and the average programming language color.
Matheus Richard
March 11, 2022
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