December 3, 2024 Ruby is a powerful, elegant programming language known for its simplicity and productivity. While it's often used for web development with frameworks like Ruby on Rails, it's also perfectly capable of running as a lightweight web server. In this article, we'll build a basic HTTP server using just Ruby's built-in socket library. … Continue reading Building a Simple Web Server in Ruby: A Beginner’s Guide
January 31, 2025 FizzBuzz is a classic programming challenge often used in coding interviews to test basic logic and looping skills. The task is simple: Print numbers from 1 to N. If a number is divisible by 3, print "Fizz" instead of the number. If a number is divisible by 5, print "Buzz". If a … Continue reading FizzBuzz Explained
January 31, 2025 Ruby is a dynamic and flexible language that allows developers to interact with objects in powerful ways. Understanding how to query an object’s capabilities can help us write cleaner, more robust, and maintainable code. Let’s explore the key techniques for interpreting object capability queries in Ruby. Do you need more hands for … Continue reading Unlocking Ruby’s Object Capabilities: A Deep Dive
November 11, 2024 In the world of web development, ensuring that your content is crawled, indexed, or ignored by search engines can be crucial for SEO and privacy. That's where Robocop, a simple yet powerful Rack middleware, comes in. What is Robocop? Robocop allows you to insert the X-Robots-Tag header into your responses, giving you … Continue reading Introducing Robocop: A Simple Middleware for Controlling Web Crawlers
November 11, 2024 Ruby on Rails 8.0 is packed with new features and enhancements across various components of the framework, focusing on improved security, efficiency, and a refined developer experience. Here’s a rundown of the most exciting updates and features Rails 8.0 brings to the table. Major Highlights in Rails 8.0 Rails 8.0 introduces updates … Continue reading What’s New in Ruby on Rails 8.0: Key Features and Improvements
November 8, 2024 FactoryBot is a powerful tool designed to streamline the creation of test data in Ruby on Rails applications. Originally created by Thoughtbot, this tool replaces traditional fixtures with a flexible, easy-to-use syntax that allows developers to define factories for any object type in their application. FactoryBot simplifies building and setting up complex … Continue reading Exploring FactoryBot for Rails Development
December 5, 2024 As developers, we know that arrays are one of the most commonly used data structures in Ruby. But when it comes to testing arrays with RSpec, things can get tricky. How do you ensure that arrays match the expected values, regardless of their order? Or how can you check that all elements … Continue reading Mastering Array Comparisons in RSpec: The Ultimate Guide 🧑💻
December 5, 2024 Ruby is renowned for its elegant syntax and powerful features, and blocks are one of the language’s most flexible tools. Among the ways to encapsulate reusable blocks of code, lambda and Proc.new stand out as key players. Though similar at first glance, their behavior diverges in fascinating ways that can influence the … Continue reading Understanding the Power of Blocks in Ruby: Lambda vs. Proc.new
January 30, 2025 If you’ve worked with Ruby on Rails, you’ve likely encountered ERB (Embedded Ruby)—the quiet powerhouse behind dynamic, maintainable Rails views. While newer templating engines like HAML or Slim often steal the spotlight, ERB remains a staple for its simplicity, flexibility, and deep Rails integration. Let’s explore why ERB deserves more love and … Continue reading Mastering ERB in Ruby on Rails: Why It’s Still a Developer Favorite
December 4, 2024 Introduction Ruby arrays are a versatile and powerful data structure, but sometimes we need specific functionality to handle duplicates and extract unique elements. In this article, I’ll show you how to extend the Array class with two custom methods: has_duplicated? to check if an array contains duplicates, and unique_elements to return only … Continue reading Enhancing Ruby Arrays with Custom Methods for Duplicates and Unique Elements
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