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  1. Building Value Objects in Rails with composed_of

    Learn how to improve the interface of your existing Active Record Models with this underutilized API.

    Steve Polito
    July 20, 2023
    • Rails
    • Ruby
    • Web
    • Active Record
    • Good Code
  2. This week in #dev (Jul 7, 2023)

    Highlights of what happened in thoughtbot’s #dev channel on Slack this week.

    thoughtbot
    July 19, 2023
    • This Week In Dev
    • Rails
    • Ruby
    • Git
    • Testing
  3. Rust Doesn't Have Named Arguments. So What?

    It’s fine. We can still write good code.

    Matheus Richard
    July 5, 2023
    • Rust
    • Ruby
  4. A love letter to Objective-C

    Let’s take a trip to Objective-C from Ruby.

    Ryan Krug
    June 26, 2023
    • Ruby
    • iOS
    • OOP
  5. Inspecting Ruby's inspect method

    Because 0x0000000103f70c98 never helped anyone.

    Louis Antonopoulos and Steve Polito
    June 20, 2023
    • Ruby
    • Development
    • Debugging
  6. 4 Strategies To Remove Dead Code from your Ruby App

    How much does it cost you to carry dead code? How do you find and remove zombie Ruby code? Use these 4 strategies to kill out all the dead code in your Ruby application.

    Stefanni Brasil
    June 6, 2023
    • Ruby
    • Rails
    • Development
  7. Avoid Putting Logic in Map Blocks

    The contents of a map block should probably be an instance method on each item.

    Joël Quenneville
    May 26, 2023
    • Web
    • Ruby
    • Domain Modeling
  8. This week in #dev (May 5, 2023)

    This week we’re talking about correctly measuring elapsed time and secret Active Record methods.

    thoughtbot
    May 25, 2023
    • This Week In Dev
    • TIL
    • Ruby
    • Ruby On Rails
  9. New Docs for factory_bot

    We have improved the documentation for factory_bot, the fixture replacement.

    Mike Burns
    May 24, 2023
    • Ruby
    • Factory Bot
    • Open Source
  10. This week in #dev (Apr 28, 2023)

    The Today I Learned edition.

    thoughtbot
    May 9, 2023
    • This Week In Dev
    • TIL
    • Ruby
    • Rails
    • Git
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