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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
Renaming Cocaine to Terrapin

We’re renaming the Cocaine gem to Terrapin.
Jon Yurek
January 22, 2018
- Ruby
- Rename
- Cocaine
- Terrapin
Why Factories?

Understanding why we use factories helps us write faster, more readable tests.
Joël Quenneville
January 12, 2018
- Ruby
- Web
- Testing
Graceful Switching of Worker Processes

How to avoid lost work from your job queues and worker processes.
Oli Peate
November 28, 2017
- Web
- Heroku
- Ruby
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