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Caching API Requests

When making requests to an external service’s API, some requests will...
Dan Croak
November 29, 2013
- Web
- Ruby
Anti-Pattern: Iteratively Building a Collection

How Ruby’s Enumerable module can turn lengthy, verbose iterations into clear abstractions.
Mike Burns
November 25, 2013
- Web
- Ruby
Ruby and Python Libraries for Yammer's API

We’ve worked closely with folks at Yammer to help developers build...
Adarsh Pandit
November 24, 2013
- Web
- Ruby
- Python
Handling API Rate Limits by Retrying Requests in Background Jobs

Has your app ever encountered a 429 (Too Many Requests) status code when...
Greg Lazarev
November 23, 2013
- Web
- Ruby
Don't Stub the System Under Test

xUnit Test Patterns defines the System Under Test (SUT) as: whatever class,...
Joe Ferris
November 22, 2013
- Web
- Ruby
- Testing
Rescue StandardError, Not Exception

Sometimes our Ruby programs throw errors which we don’t have full control...
Jon Yurek
November 18, 2013
- Web
- Ruby
Faking Remote Services with Rack::Test

Using Rack middleware, we can reroute Rack::Test requests to fake remote...
Joe Ferris
November 16, 2013
- Web
- Testing
- Ruby
FactoryBot for Seed Data?

Occasionally, somebody recommends or asks about using FactoryBot to generate...
Josh Clayton
November 13, 2013
- Web
- Ruby
- Testing
- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
Less Painful Heroku Deploys with Migrations

A Rails app running on Heroku must be restarted after migrating the database....
Joe Ferris
November 12, 2013
- Web
- Ruby
Honey, I shrunk the internet! - Content Compression via Rack::Deflater

Speed is key. The snappier the site, the more visitors like you. Speed is so...
Dan Collis-Puro
November 12, 2013
- Web
- Ruby
- Performance
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