3 Defensive Programming Techniques for Rails

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3 Defensive Programming Techniques for Rails

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3 Defensive Programming Techniques for Rails

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Change Pro-Tip: Experiments, Cheating, and Responsibility

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Blast from the past

To gem, or not to gem

…that is the question.
Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer
the slings and arrows of outrageous Gemfiles,
or to take arms against a sea of dependencies
and by opposing, end them.

Questioning Responsibility

I can imagine paleontologists drooling over our applications’ changelogs. I’m sure they wish they had a record of the exact environment that caused a recently uncovered Protoceratops to grow that very interesting third eyeball.

Gem of the week