https://moskitohero.com/tags/ruby/Recent content in Ruby on MoskitoHeroHugoen-usTue, 06 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://moskitohero.com/post/2025-05-06-an-introduction-to-barley-the-fast-model-serializer/Tue, 06 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://moskitohero.com/post/2025-05-06-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.https://moskitohero.com/post/2024-01-12-ruby-best-practices-method-arguments/Fri, 12 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://moskitohero.com/post/2024-01-12-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.https://moskitohero.com/post/2022-05-17-learn-your-error-messages-as-thyself/Tue, 17 May 2022 07:44:36 +0000https://moskitohero.com/post/2022-05-17-learn-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.https://moskitohero.com/post/2021-11-21-writing-code-for-your-future-self/Sun, 21 Nov 2021 07:44:36 +0000https://moskitohero.com/post/2021-11-21-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.https://moskitohero.com/post/2020-10-08-an-alternative-to-the-activerecord-after-initialize-callbacks/Sat, 03 Oct 2020 00:23:33 +0000https://moskitohero.com/post/2020-10-08-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.https://moskitohero.com/post/2020-10-03-chaining-conditions-in-regular-expressions/Sat, 03 Oct 2020 00:23:33 +0000https://moskitohero.com/post/2020-10-03-chaining-conditions-in-regular-expressions/Unleash the full power of regular expressions by chaining conditions together.https://moskitohero.com/post/2020-01-26-prevent-devise-from-sending-confirmation-emails/Sun, 26 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://moskitohero.com/post/2020-01-26-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.