Best Practices
Common Rails Security Pitfalls and Their Solutions
Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski walks through 10 common security issues when using Rails and how to avoid and manage each one.
The Conventions of Contributing to Open Source
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7 Design Patterns to Refactor MVC Components in Rails
Viktoria Kotsurenko explains seven very useful design patterns and how they can be applied to MVC components in Rails to make your app more maintainable.
The Basics of MVC in Rails: Skinny Everything
Viktoria Kotsurenko reviews some of the basics of MVC in Rails, showing why everything should be skinny.
10 Ruby on Rails Best Practices
Sarmad Sabih runs through some of his favorite best practices for Rails applications.
Tools for a Modern Ruby Development Setup
David Bush shows you some of the development tools he uses to be more productive in Ruby.
Quick Tip: DRY Up Your Model Validations Tests
Sam Sarmad shows how he removed a ton of duplicated test code when testing ActiveModel validations.
Exploring Cryptography Fundamentals in Ruby
Jesus Castello walks through the basics of cryptography using examples in Ruby. This is an excellent primer on crypto.
Learn Concurrency by Making a Countdown Latch in Ruby
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Get the Lowdown on Ruby Modules
Fred Heath takes you through the ins-and-outs of modules in Ruby. Learn where modules fit in the Ruby Object Model and how to use the effectively.
Ruby Interview Questions: LRU Cache and Binary Trees
Dhaivat Pandya covers two more Ruby interview topics: LRU Cache and Binary Trees. If you're interviewing any time soon, read this to get two more topics.
Ruby Interview Questions: Linked Lists and Hash Tables
Dhaivat Pandya covers linked lists and hash tables from the Ruby interviewee's point of view. Get ready for Ruby interviews with this post.
What’s in a Name? Anti-Patterns to a Hard Problem
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Improve Your Ruby with the Adapter Design Pattern
Robert Qualls looks at the Adapter Design pattern in various popular Ruby gems, following it up with an example implementation.
Improve the Smell of Your Code with Microrefactorings
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Solving Design Anti-Patterns in Ruby: Fix the Factory
Fred Heath shows how Ruby can take patterns from other languages and clean them up using Modules to make your code concise and expressive.
How to Solve Coding Anti-Patterns for Ruby Rookies
Fred Heath zeroes in on several anti-patterns that are commonly perpetrated by Ruby Rookies. Fred also shows how to solve them.
WebSockets in the Ruby Ecosystem
Dhaivat Pandya explains the humble beginnings of WebSockets and how you can use them in Ruby today and in the future.
License to SIGKILL
Secret Agent Richard Schneeman walks through the signals you should be using to kill processes, along with the code to handle the signals.
Ruby Error Handling, Beyond the Basics
Darko Gjorgjievski takes you beyond the simple tutorials about Ruby error handling to the next level.
The Ruby Community: An Introduction
Nihal Sahu reports his findings on his first year in Ruby and what he discovered about the Ruby Community. Jump start your Ruby introduction.
Algorithmic Fun with Ruby Hashes
Fred Heath walks through some common programming problems using Ruby Hashes as the solution.
How Ruby Uses Memory
Richard Schneeman explains how Ruby uses memory, running through various examples and methods. This information is something every Ruby dev should know.
Ruby’s Important Hook Methods
Imran Latif explores Ruby's most important hook methods. Learn what these methods are and how Ruby's favorite gems are using them.
Ruby on Medicine: Scrolling Through Large Files
Abder-Rahman Ali continues the Ruby on Medicine series, showing how to use Ruby to smoothly scroll through VERY large (think, GBs) text files.
Sailing the Parallel Seas with Codeship
Glenn Goodrich takes us on a voyage aboard the vessel Codeship, exploring the high seas of continuous integration with the new ParallelCI tool
Which IDEs do Rubyists Use?
Abder-Rahman Ali follows up his interviews about text editor usage in Ruby with one about IDEs. Learn which IDE Rubyists prefer and why it's at the top.
Symbol GC in Ruby 2.2
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Chruby and Rbenv Tips and Tricks
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The Syntax of Taste: Refactoring Conditionals
Conditionals aren't bad, but they sure do have a tendency to proliferate. Here we'll look at a conditional and how to gain a small measure of control