Following the Path A journey into requiring files via $PATH and $LOAD_PATH. Joël Quenneville April 10, 2017 Web Ruby Unix
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Update Your Gems Early and Often bundle outdated can be useful for keeping your bundler dependencies updated.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