Blogs
Noteflakes: Real-world Concurrency with Ruby and Polyphony: a Telnet Chat App
Recently there has been a lot of renewed interest in fibers as the building blocks for writing concurrent Ruby apps. Most of the articles written lately (my own included) have tried to explain what are fibers, how they can be used for writing conc...
Live Ruby Type Checking with TypeProf-IDE - Big Nerd Ranch
Let's try out TypeProf-IDE, a Visual Studio Code integration that allows real-time type analysis and developer feedback of Ruby 3.1 code.In his RubyConf 2021 keynote, the creator of Ruby, Yukihiro Matsumoto, announced TypeProf-IDE, a Visual Studio...
How to Improve Code Quality on a Ruby on Rails Application
"Software Code Quality means it works as expected AND it isn't a PITA to maintain it" -- Ernesto TagwerkerThe simplest way to know if your codebase has enough Code Quality is if your team can easily add or change features without breakingunrelated...
GraphQL The Rails Way: Part 1 - Exposing your resources for querying
TL;DR; GraphQL is a good way of making your API more flexible and less resource consuming. But if you think that type-definition is cumbersome then read on. With the modules we provide you'll be able to expose fully functional resources with one l...
Stop using Faker and random data in the test fixtures
Faker/FFaker can seem like the perfect solution to generate data for testing.In theory, Faker increases development speed while allowing you to have real-looking test data and having your database populated with more records while you’re doing dev...