Duck Typing

The term Duck Typing comes from a simple example of abductive reasoning. If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.

Ruby 2.4 implements Array#min and Array#max

 Ruby 2.4 implements Array#min and Array#max to find the minimum and maximum value of the array 

Rewriting Ruby with synvert

Synvert can actually fix issues as opposed to flagging them. That's not to say that flagging issues isn't valuable; if reek or flog finds problematic code a human needs to figure out what to do but finding it is half the battle. 

Why We Chose Turbolinks

We actively chose Turbolinks, installed it, and integrated it in to our application. I think that makes us pretty unique.

Opal on Rails: Replacing CoffeeScript with client-side Ruby

In this article I’ll show you how easy it is to start writing your client-side scripts in Ruby. Right here, right now, with no excuses! :)

Full-stack development is alive and well. And for good reasons.

In recent years, we started drawing two separate career paths for developers: front-end and back-end. But we often forget about the third option — full-stack.

How We Made Our App 5x Faster

We just deployed an update to our React-Rails app that improved load time by 500%, plus behind-the-scenes tweaks that allow our dev team to build features faster and deploy more often.

One request can be multiple commands

It took me many years to understand the simple truth. One HTTP request sent by a browser may include a few separate logical commands. One request does not always equal one logical command.

Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years

Walk into any bookstore, and you'll see how to Teach Yourself Java in 24 Hours alongside endless variations offering to teach C, SQL, Ruby, Algorithms, and so on in a few days or hours. Either people are in a big rush to learn about programming, or that programming is somehow fabulously easier to learn than anything else.

Monban

Monban is rails authentication made simple.