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Code Quality Challenge

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Code Quality Challenge

Over the last few days, I followed the Code Quality Challenge proposed by Ben Orenstein: a series of daily tasks to improve code quality. Through this post I’ll share all I’ve learned.

Ruby

Ruby’s New JIT

There have been many attempts at implementing a JIT for CRuby, the reference implementation of Ruby. None have been merged, until now.

A dive into the sharp knives

On one of my favorite parts of Ruby and the difference between a knife, an axe and a scalpel.

Rails

Private delegation method in Rails 6.0

Since Rails 2.1.0, Rails provides a helper method delegate as a shorthand to create simple delegation methods

TIL #1: Single Table Inheritance

Why and when should you use Single Table Inheritance

Beyond Ruby

Slack is the opposite of organizational memory

Managers like it because it ‘gets things down on paper’, ‘improves reachability’, ‘gets questions answered quickly’. My argument is that it destroys teams’ ability to think, plan & get complex work out the door

Working remotely, 4 years in

I live in Montreal. 4 years ago, I decided to take a job working remotely for a company based in San Francisco. At the time, I was worried that it wouldn’t work out – I’d never worked remotely before, so it was a pretty big unknown for me

Blast from the past