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Decorating ActiveRecord

Avoid some tricky edge cases when decorating ActiveRecord models.
Joël Quenneville
March 31, 2017
- Web
- Ruby
- Rails
Modeling a Paginated API as a Lazy Stream

Pagination of APIs is a performance optimization trick. As a consumer, you may want to model things with a lazy stream instead.
Joël Quenneville
March 29, 2017
- Web
- Ruby
Testing Third Party Interactions

How to test integrations with a third-party API.
Joël Quenneville
March 15, 2017
- Web
- Ruby
- Testing
Chain RSpec Matchers for Improved Test Readability

Improve test readability by leveraging RSpec’s matcher composition to make multiple assertions with a single matcher.
Josh Clayton
March 9, 2017
- Web
- RSpec
- Ruby
- Rails
- Testing
How to Skim a Pull Request

A list of keywords that give us pause.
Mike Burns
February 13, 2017
- Code
- Ruby
Block Web Crawlers with Rails

Search engines “crawl” and “index” web content through programs called robots (a.k.a. crawlers or spiders). Here are some approaches to blocking them in Ruby on Rails apps.
Dan Croak
February 10, 2017
- Rails
- Ruby
- SEO
- Web
Special Sale on Upcase and RubyTapas

If you’re going to be writing Ruby in 2017, I have some good news.
Ben Orenstein
February 1, 2017
- News
- Upcase
- Ruby
- Web
Update Your Gems Early and Often

bundle outdated can be useful for keeping your bundler dependencies updated.
Ian Zabel
January 24, 2017
- Rails
- Ruby
- Web
Composition vs Inheritance

Choose the right tool for the job when building modular software.
Joël Quenneville
November 3, 2016
- Web
- Ruby
- Good Code
Building Reusable Object-Oriented Systems: Composition

Using composition to build modular object-oriented systems.
Joël Quenneville
November 2, 2016
- Web
- Ruby
- Good Code
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