A post about releasing my new Ruby gem github_contributions! This is a tool that I've been using to track my GitHub contributions.
A quick tip - when working with a code base that has sleep/delays in it, where you want to stub them out.
Read my opinion on using Active Support without Rails in Ruby-only projects. I think the benefits outweigh the cost. Active Support is a Ruby on Rails component that primarily extends the Ruby language providing, a richer experience to developers.
Learn to edit within a pry session. Experience the power of multi-line and patch editing.
Pronto runners provides an automatic mechanism to find offenses in code reviews. Learn the essentials of pronto runners so that you can build your own.
Dead code has no reason to be in a project. Dead code wastes a developer’s time and energy. Going from this it makes sense to remove the dead code and put it rest with a delete keystroke. The main problem is how to identify dead code in a living project?
RailsRequestStats provides a simple drop-in solution to expose more statistics on requests. New information is presented in your development logs, supplying you with the required information to iteratively optimize requests by noticing subtle changes in the number of queries and average runtimes.
A little history on my website, and the underlying framework I have used -- Middleman. I walkthrough the process on how I deploy the website to GitHub pages using a deployment script.
ActiveJob in Rails provides nice benefits. The background queueing gem Sidekiq allows for tailored options that you cannot use with ActiveJob. This post looks at a project's transition from ActiveJob to Sidekiq, and how to fill the missing functionality of ActiveJob Callbacks. By the end, we come up with a way to contain the callback logic to their own modules without modifying the concrete jobs.
When you are knee deep in Ruby and dealing with objects that you never created it's sometimes a little daunting to trace everything back and figure it all out. Luckly there are a couple techniques in Ruby that can aid you. In particular, pry is an extreamly powerful tool that you should have in your toolbox.