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Current Strategies for Client-side Communication Between Components
These days we have dynamic and modern UIs in our Web Apps. We learned that the best way to build reactive and reliable UIs is probably going with…
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4.5 Ways to Install Ruby in Userspace
Recently a Rubyist friend of mine got a new client. He liked the client’s software idea, but the software was written in Python. Because of that, he thought…
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A Quest for Better Specs: Prefer Self-Containment
Test suites all over Ruby land are frequently riddled with a bad obsession: one liner spec examples. No matter what level of complexity a particular piece of code…
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Prevent a force pushing to master with ruby
Yeah, everyone knows, it’s the mor law of versioned systems, NEVER do a git push -f on the default branch, never, even when you know what you’re doing,…
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Controller Best Practices: Don’t Hide Instance Variables
This is something I often mention in code reviews, and it’s also mentioned in some Rails guidelines elsewhere without further explanation: please, don’t hide instance variables. Everyone who…
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Using ActiveRecord to create atomic transactions
Imagine the following situation: You were asked to create a new wallet feature to an application. This wallet must allow money transfer between users. Basically, you take money…
