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Aug 22 2017

Rails Magic Busting #1: The curious case of string inquiry.

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Rails Magic Busting #1: The curious case of string inquiry.
Everyone says the same thing about Rails: “It’s Magic”. For a long time, I thought the same, too. Things just worked and I was a very happy developer
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Ruby
In this post I am trying to point out some Ruby features you might want to use with a lot of caution.
Recently I find out about Eventide project and it looked really nice for me based on the initial documentation so I wanted have a small look inside
The other day I was reading through some ruby code and I saw a method that was defined with “&block” as an argument.
Rails
My favourite part of Rails is clearly ActiveRecord’s scopes. Their expressiveness and their reusability is simply great.
In this post, I’m going to tell you about batching as a technique to help avoid N+1 queries
Beyond Ruby
At Atlassian, we deal with complex projects every day, from cross product integrations, to projects with aggressive deadlines or dispersed teammates. The bigger and more dynamic a project is, the more likely it is to cause stress and indecision.
This is the first in a series of performance benchmarks comparing TimescaleDB to other databases for storing and analyzing time-series data
I suspect that there’s a certain personality type that is drawn to programming. It’s the type of person that must be solving problems and learning new things, because without this drive, it’s hard to get ahead
Blast from the past
To create a usable piece of software, you have to fight for every fix, every feature, every little accommodation that will get one more person up the curve. There are no shortcuts. Luck is involved, but you don’t win by being lucky, it happens because you fought for every inch.
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Enhances Rails with multi-account, form-based, database-less, application-wide authentication.
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