Antipattern: Fire & Forget
When dealing with an external service, like an API call, you can: 1) Check the response, catching for any and…
OpenStruct Secret Tool
Perhaps you have already learned about mocking and stubbing in tests. Ruby has a secret tool that will unlock the…
A Word About Flash Messages
Beginner When you first learn Rails, you will learn about an important little tool call flash messages. These messages are…
Cache or Bust
Beginner Ahh, the Rails cache. A funny thing about caching— it’s really important. Rails has a fancy little cache mechanism…
Identity Crisis
Beginner This post is part of my Stepping Up Rails: Go From Good to Great series. Get the complete series…
Who is N+1?
Beginner This post is part of my Stepping Up Rails series. Ahh, the elusive N+1 query. Perhaps you’ve heard of…
Uninitialized Constant OBJECT (while in a Rake task)
Beginner This post is part of my Stepping Up Rails: Go From Good to Great series. Get the complete series…
Rails Magic Autoload (Zeitwerk)
Beginner Rails Autoloading is what happens in the background that most developers don’t even think about. The Rails Autoload is…
Avoiding Fat Models by Preferring Composition Over Inheritance
Today I’m gonna talk about Fat Models. Fat Models are unavoidable when you are learning Rails. That’s because when they…