An introduction to Barley, the fast model serializer
How I built and open-sourced Barley, a fast and simple model serializer gem for Rails, born from real-world performance needs and benchmarked against the best in the Ruby ecosystem.
Ruby
Ruby Best Practices - Method Arguments
Simple rules for ordering Ruby method arguments — put optional arguments last, and switch to keyword arguments when you have more than one optional parameter.
Love your error messages as thyself
Stop ignoring error messages and start reading them — it will make you a better developer and help you understand your language from the inside out.
Writing code for your future self
A set of guidelines to write clean, readable code that you — and your future self — will thank you for.
An alternative to the ActiveRecord after_initialize callbacks
Avoiding the callback hell in Rails by creating a simple method in the model to initialize associated records.
Chaining conditions in regular expressions
Unleash the full power of regular expressions by chaining conditions together.
Prevent Devise from sending confirmation emails
When you need to import users into a new Rails app using Devise, you may want to skip sending confirmation emails. Here’s how to do it by overriding an instance method in the User model.