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Meowifier: A Hiss-tory Lesson

The tail of how it all started.
Beth Haubert
October 4, 2019
- Fun
- Code
- Ruby
- API
- Inspiration
Using doobie; Scala with PostgreSQL vs ActiveRecord

I’ve wrapped up my second Scala client project, and I enjoyed SQL.
Matt Sumner
June 6, 2019
- Ruby
- Scala
- SQL
Function Composition in Ruby

Ruby 2.6 added function composition to the Proc and Method classes, allowing us to use some functional programming goodness in our Ruby code.
Tom Wey
May 6, 2019
- Ruby
Ruby under the influence [of Scala]

Learning Scala has changed the way that I write my Ruby.
Rachel Mathew
March 27, 2019
- Ruby
- Scala
Ruby Memoization and Alternatives

As Ruby developers, we tend to memoize too often.
Joël Quenneville
December 5, 2018
- Ruby
- Web
Rails Path Helpers and the Mystery of the Missing Route Key

Rails Path Helpers embark on a quest to find a missing route key only for the tester to discover that errors lie just around the bend…
Stephanie Viccari
November 9, 2018
- Rails
- Ruby
Tab completion in GNU Readline: Ruby edition

Learn about the new Readline features coming to Ruby soon.
George Brocklehurst
October 19, 2018
- gitsh
- Readline
- Ruby
Deprecating static attributes in factory_bot 4.11

Static attributes have been the source of much confusion over the years. Their deprecation will come with a rubocop-rspec Cop to automatically replace with dynamic attributes.
Daniel Colson
August 16, 2018
- Factory Bot
- Open Source
- Testing
- Ruby
Deprecating Paperclip

We are deprecating Paperclip in favor of ActiveStorage. Learn what this means for you.
Mike Burns
May 14, 2018
- News
- Paperclip
- Ruby
Using `yield_self` for composable ActiveRecord relations

On the code-changing magic of yield_self.
Derek Prior
March 13, 2018
- Rails
- Ruby
- Web
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