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An introduction to Barley, the fast model serializer

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An introduction to Barley, the fast model serializer

I have published a simple ActiveModel serializer called Barley. It is very, very fast, easy to use, and it comes with caching and type-checking baked in. Here is a little introduction.

Reach your Ruby Zen

Reach your Ruby Zen

The Ruby community is full of great resources to learn the specifics of the language. One small tool I regularly return to and recommend to all junior devs looking to discover Ruby is Ruby Koans. A Koan, in Zen philosophy, is an exchange between a master and their disciple that

Ruby Best Practices - Method Arguments

Ruby Best Practices - Method Arguments

To write readable and maintainable code, follow a few simple rules about argument ordering. Tip 1: Optional arguments go last When a method takes several arguments, and some of them have default values, make sure to put the optional ones at the end. Take this method definition: def foo(a,

Love your error messages as thyself

Love your error messages as thyself

Learn to hate, then love error messages. Stack Overflow overflow I have lost so much time on Stack Overflow. I mean Stack Overflow is great, and software development knowledge would not be so advanced and so widespread without its great influence. What I mean is that I have often found

Writing code for your future self

Writing code for your future self

We all write bad code. Let’s face it. Even if we do our best at writing the most efficient and well-designed code, we all happen to write this dirty method we don’t feel so proud of and dread having to debug next month, or next year. I’m

An alternative to the ActiveRecord after_initialize callback

An alternative to the ActiveRecord after_initialize callback

I was playing with dynamic nested forms with Stimulus today and I stumbled upon a void left by Rails’ ActiveRecord callbacks. I have this Caregiver model within a nested form and I need to create it along with a User entity in my form, to be able to populate the

Chaining conditions in regular expressions

Chaining conditions in regular expressions

I recently had to make a semi-complex check on a string to validate it. Basically, I have this model method which produces a serial number based on the ID of the object. Valid returned values for this method are L00000002, L00000587 or L00014522. In short, they should be constituted of

Prevent Devise from sending confirmation emails

Prevent Devise from sending confirmation emails

I am about to release a huge rails project I have been working on for quite a while. This project is meant to replace an old app that manages a database of customers with emails. The new rails project uses Devise for authentication. Before we push the final update to

Crystal, l'avenir de Ruby

Crystal, l'avenir de Ruby

Cela fait quelques mois que je suis de près le développement d’un langage informatique qui a fait son apparition il y a quelques années déjà : Crystal. Je suis vraiment un grand fan de code. Au point parfois de regarder mon IDE en me disant : “c’est beauuuuu…” Mais du

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