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Ruby on Rails most popular among top Y Combinator companies
Y Combinator, an accomplished investment fund and startup incubator, has published a list of its top 100 graduate companies ranked by valuation as of October 2019. 8 out of 10 most valued companies in the ranking were built using Ruby on Rails.Amo...
Why Pry is one of the most important tools a junior Rubyist can learn
As programmers we often have to mentally run code. To imagine how a program will behave given certain inputs. This is hard enough for experienced developers. But for juniors? It can seem impossible. In this article, Melissa Williams argues that pr...
Ruby on Rails Mistakes that could kill Your Production Servers
In this tutorial, I’ll describe a couple of non-obvious Ruby on Rails mistakes that could bring down your production system. They are so sneaky that they could get past the review process of even more experienced developers. Please don’t ask me ho...
Rails has added strict loading mode to prevent lazy loading
Rails 6.1 has added strict_loading mode to prevent lazy loading of associations. When the strict_loading mode is used, the associated records will have to be eager loaded using includes else a ActiveRecord::StrictLoadingViolationError will be raised.