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 …
Tag: Ruby
“!” and “?”: Understanding One of Ruby’s Coolest Naming Conventions
by “!” and “?”: Understanding One of Ruby’s Coolest Naming Conventions “Well, that’s quite some symbols you got there *♨_♨” – You, after reading this article’s …
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 …
Zero to Up and Running a Rails Project only using Docker
Disclaimer: this post is based on Quickstart: Compose and Rails — Docker the main difference is that I will run everything with my own user …
Refactoring Ruby: From Subclass to Registry From developing a solution to gradually improving it by listening to the pain
My team was given a particularly laborious task: implement responsive images throughout a legacy Rails application. Back then, the app was sending disproportionally large image …
Towards Minimal, Idiomatic, and Performant Ruby Code Debunking some popular Ruby idioms
I try to embrace a particular way of working with code: it should be minimal, idiomatic, and performant by default. Sometimes it is necessary to …
Cracking the Box Open with Module Factories About the lesser-known Ruby Module Factories
Metaprogramming is one of Ruby’s most powerful, intriguing and hard-to-grasp features. Ruby has a deep kind of truth that I could not yet find in …