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Defined Methods in Rake Tasks; You're Gonna Have a Bad Time

March 21, 2016
3 min read
rails rake ruby

Do you define methods within your Rake tasks? You might want to reconsider that, or you're gonna have a bad time down the road. Walkthrough an example which illustrates a tricky gotcha and solutions to avoiding it.

Vim Substitution Feedback Using vim-over

February 29, 2016
1 min read
vim

Vim substitutions offer little affordance in whether the search will match the desired text. vim-over is a vim plugin that provides visual feedback while working with substitutions.

Project-Wide Search and Replace with Vim

January 28, 2016
1 min read
vim

There are many instances where you might want to perform a mass search and replace in Vim. The following are two commands that can help out with such a task.

Respect HTTP Caching

September 24, 2015
5 min read
caching http

API developers put a lot of time and effort to ensure that their API can scale. One effective way to mitigate load is to use HTTP caching. As developers we need to respect HTTP caching to not waste efforts.

Faster RSpec Regression Testing

September 21, 2015
4 min read
rspec ruby testing

Explore two approaches for testing along with a suggested workflow. The goal is to improve the time spent during regression testing. The described technique can apply to other testing frameworks, assuming they have similar mechanisms to RSpec's it blocks.

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