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November 13, 2025 Sometimes, the smallest details in a language reveal the biggest lessons. Recently, during a code review, someone suggested I change this: if !name.nil? puts "Name exists" end to this: unless name.nil? puts "Name exists" end At first, it looked like a minor stylistic tweak. But in Ruby, style often carries philosophy. 🧠 … Continue reading 💎 Unless: The Ruby Way to Not Say No
July 21, 2025 When working with date ranges or numeric intervals in Ruby on Rails, writing clear and idiomatic code can be the difference between “just working” and being truly expressive. One tool that helps achieve this is Ruby’s inclusive range operator .. — and yes, it works beautifully with ActiveRecord too. 🔍 Understanding Ruby’s … Continue reading 🔍 Understanding Ruby’s .. Range Operator in ActiveRecord Queries
July 7, 2025 💻 #Ruby #RubyOnRails #ProgrammingTips #CleanCode Ever needed to combine two arrays element by element in Ruby? There's a method for that—it's called zip, and it’s one of my favorites for transforming structured data with elegance. 👇 Here's why zip is worth knowing: ✅ Combine Arrays by Index [1, 2, 3].zip(["a", "b", "c"]) … Continue reading 🔗 Ruby’s zip: Elegant Array Merging Made Easy
🧠 Hash Transformations in Ruby: index_by vs index_with July 4, 2025 Ruby and Rails developers often appreciate how expressive and elegant the language is—especially when it comes to working with collections. One of the lesser-known gems in Ruby’s Enumerable toolbox is the pair of methods: index_by and index_with. Both are incredibly powerful for transforming arrays … Continue reading 🧠 Hash Transformations in Ruby: index_by vs index_with
A Survey of Search Strategies in Ruby July 3, 2025 "He who seeks, finds." — Popular Spanish Proverb In the domain of computer science and software engineering, the act of searching is more than a task — it is a fundamental cognitive pattern, embedded into the logic of algorithms, data structures, and the very languages … Continue reading El que busca, encuentra: A Survey of Search Strategies in Ruby
Simplifying Deeply Nested Routes in Rails with shallow: true July 2, 2025 When building APIs or web applications using Ruby on Rails, one often encounters the challenge of managing deeply nested resources. While Rails' routing DSL offers expressive ways to represent model relationships, deeply nested routes can result in unwieldy URLs, complicated controller logic, and … Continue reading 🧭 Simplifying Deeply Nested Routes in Rails with shallow: true
July 1, 2025 As developers, we often default to relational databases like PostgreSQL or MySQL when building Rails applications. But what happens when your data is better represented as documents, or you need more flexibility with your schema? That’s where MongoDB comes in — and with the help of Mongoid, integrating it with Rails is … Continue reading 🚀 Using MongoDB in Ruby on Rails with Mongoid: A Practical Example
🔍 Exploring Ruby’s Hidden Powers: Getting Full System Info with Pure Ruby June 30, 2025 As developers, we often turn to external tools or system commands to gather environment and system information. But did you know that Ruby gives you everything you need—natively—to inspect the full context in which your code is running? 🤯 Recently, … Continue reading 🔍 Exploring Ruby’s Hidden Powers: Getting Full System Info with Pure Ruby
June 27, 2025 Reactive programming has emerged as a powerful paradigm for handling dynamic data flows and complex event-driven applications. But while its declarative style brings clarity and flexibility, it often comes at the cost of performance. A fascinating approach to bridging this performance gap is explored in the research work "Reactive Ruby" by Moritz … Continue reading ⚡ Boosting Reactive Programming Performance with JIT: Meet Reactive Ruby
June 26, 2025 Have you ever wondered how Ruby interprets characters behind the scenes? During some recent coding exploration, I dove deep into .chr and .ord—two Ruby methods that reveal how characters are represented at the byte and code point level. Let me share what I found 👇 🔡 Integer#chr and String#ord: What Are They? … Continue reading 🧵 From ASCII to Emojis: Understanding Ruby’s .chr and .ord Methods
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