A beginner’s personal journey into automated tests
by Like many engineers, I landed into coding kind of by accident. I was programming alone and unsupervised for a decade and my work was mostly …
Tag: Ruby
CodeTips#1: Exploring Hashes in Ruby
by Hello, fellow readers! Before we can jump right in, we have an announcement! There is a new series of posts here in the blog: CodeTips! …
Ruby’s Cool Features for Beginners
by Hi, everyone! In this article, we’re gonna cover some features and concepts that differ Ruby from other programming languages, especially from languages that I’ve learned …
ActiveRecord Callback Chain: A Cool (and Weird) Edge Case
Image by jcomp Well, it’s been a while. After a lot of time… I’m back! (￣▽￣)/ If you haven’t read my last post, give it …
Exploring RSpec – Improving Your Testing Skills
by Testing our apps has become mandatory these days. For an app to be considered reliable it must have 95% or so of test coverage. Having …
“!” and “?”: Understanding One of Ruby’s Coolest Naming Conventions
“Well, that’s quite some symbols you got there *♨_♨” – You, after reading this article’s title.* It was a calm Friday afternoon here at CodeMiner42, …
Destroying an Association Marked as Read-Only in Rails
by Read-only is a boolean setting. When true, it prevents an Active Record instance to be updated or destroyed. Although very helpful, there are a few …
Migrating from Paperclip to ActiveStorage My first challenge as an intern
by First of all, I’m no expert in programming. In fact, I started with Ruby on Rails about one and a half month ago with the …
Functional Object Composition and MVC Gluing together encapsulation and functional programming
by This is not just a fragile hack, it’s a powerful glue! I just read a great blog post on the internet about MVC not being …
Crystal by Numbers Benchmarking Kemal, Ruby on Rails, and Sinatra
by Run! TL;DR Kemal delivers 8.3x more requests than Rails and 1.5x than Sinatra, using only 15MiB (against 110MiB in Rails and 47MiB in Sinatra) and …