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Interview with Elia of Opal - a Ruby to JavaScript source-to-source compiler
Hi! I’m from Italy, I’ve been working as a software developer for about 15 years now, and I'm not one of those early childhood programmers that started with Basic and a Commodore 64, I had my initial encounter with programming in high school, whe ...
Exploring Ruby's Global Constants and Variables - FastRuby.io | Rails Upgrade Service
By default, Ruby defines many constants and global variables that can be used in the code to get information about the current state of the application and the runtime. In this article we’ll go over most of them to understand what they are and wha...
Optimizing Ruby on Rails Serializers: Efficient Hash Unpacking in Serializer - DEV Community
In the world of Ruby on Rails development, serializers play a crucial role in transforming ActiveRecord objects into JSON formats suitable for client-side consumption. However, while invaluable, serializers can sometimes introduce performance bott...
You don’t need services (whatever this word means) | Grainy dinosaurs
Last Sunday, I had the pleasure to attend one of Jason Swett’s online meetups. This time, Jason had put his consultant hat on, and was helping a cheerful developer, Duncan, fix his app. Having played the role of the consultant myself quite often, ...