What is the splat operator doing here?

I’ve received an email from a fellow software developer inquiring about a bit of code where I use Ruby’s splat operator in two different ways. One is for consuming all parameters in as one array variable, and the other is to consume all entries out of one array as parameters.

Rescue's Elegant Trick for Knowing Which Exceptions to Catch

If you've worked with Ruby's exceptions before, you know you can specify which exceptions get rescued and which are not and you probably know that when you rescue a "parent" you rescue all of its "children" as well.

New binding.irb introduced in ruby 2.4

Ruby 2.4 will have the feature to introduce a REPL session, using IRB, in between your code execution for better debugging. IRB, which stands for Interactive Ruby, is the standard REPL which is bundled along with ruby.

Complex Sorting in ActiveRecord

I recently had an opportunity to make a small object with a single responsibility. The object would be used to build the SQL fragment that gets passed as a parameter to ActiveRecord's .order() method.

How I fixed my biggest mistake with implementing background jobs

When I first began implementing background jobs I found myself moving my code into an appropriate background class whether it was in app or lib somewhere. I found it frustrating that I needed to shift code around based only on the decision to run it in the background.

How requirements shaped my code, AKA Rails 5 and ActiveRecord before_destroy callbacks

I recently started a new project with Rails 5, and at some point I found out the code was not behaving as expected. The initial scenario was quite simple, Admins can have many Phones, as this code suggests

Web Development Top 10 for the Past Year (v.2017)

For the past year, we’ve ranked nearly 13,500 Web Development articles to pick the Top 10 stories (0.074% chance) that can help you prepare your web career in 2017.

PostgreSQL inheritance

On stackoverflow and elsewhere I stumbled over questions about inheritance in PostgreSQL a couple of times.1 People are confused about how this feature is related to inheritance in object oriented programming (OOP) and how to use it.

Daily Builds Are Your Friend

In 1982, my family took delivery of the very first IBM-PC in Israel. We actually went down to the warehouse and waited while our PC was delivered from the port.

Roar

Parse and render REST API documents using representers.