Every trend, technology, and even programming language has its peak in popularity that sooner or later will decrease slightly or by a considerable amount. If we lookup “state of ruby language” in Google we will most likely get many results concerning Ruby’s alleged death and decrease in popularity. …

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. — Phil Karlton Naming things in programming may not be hard (a matter of imagination), but it is definitely hard to do it right. Also, it turns out to be very unclear what “right” means in…

The challenge is to test a static method that yields multiple values but should stop when a given condition is met. Let’s imagine such method as follows def self.poll(condition: -> {}) counter = 0 while true do yield counter += 1 break if condition.call end end There is a problem…

I’ve been working on projects where we keep the git history flat (no merge-commits) for quite a bit of time now, and I’ve decided to make a list of git commands I often use during every-day development. Some of them I use rarely, but just want to keep the list…

I find private_constant to be a very underused tool in most of the ruby projects I’ve dealt with so far. This inclined me to specify a few rules for myself that would help me in deciding whether given constant should be kept private or not. Configuration consts Something I refer to as…

Have you ever thought about writing a technical article to share your knowledge with others and had no clue how to do so? You are in the right place. …

A while ago I was cooperating on a project with a few developers, one of which was not very accustomed to writing tests the BDD (or even TDD) way. The specs he was introducing after implementation in many cases were not testing the expected behavior or were testing it the…

New frontend framework, new language, new external service, new complex pattern, new rules for development… most developers like brand new things, solutions and techniques, and this is ok, but when we decide to use it for a commercial project, we should take a step back and sort out whether this…

as seen by RubyOnRails Developers @ Selleo In the previous part of this article we focused on making specs we try to write as readable as possible. This however, comes at a cost of duplication and bloated individual tests. …