An exhaustive book list about Ruby and Ruby on Rails — Introduction We all want to become better programmers, and there is a tonne of books that’ll help you along your journey. In this blog, We’re going to list 3 Ruby and Ruby on Rails books that can have a big impact on your thought process as a Rubyist. Eloquent Ruby by Russ Olsen This book will…

An overview of the tools provided by Ruby and Ruby on Rails to safely convert values into an array — Introduction As a developer, it can happen that you need to convert an unpredictable parameter to an array. By default, most Rubyists tend to think about the well-known to_a method Cool! But what if we try to convert other values? Here, we can see that to_a isn’t defined on…

Taking advantage of capture groups to manipulate Strings in Ruby — Quick reminder of Regexp and capture groups In Ruby, the regular expression logic is encapsulated in the Regexp class. There is 3 ways to instantiate a Regexp So, the next question is: how to match this Regexp against a String ? The MatchData class Regexpprovides a methodRegexp#match that takes aString to test as a parameter Regexp#match returns an…

An honest return of experience of how I accompanied a dozen of people to become web developers — During my journey as a developer, I helped 3 of my friends to become developer. One was a former history teacher while the 2 others worked as accountant in the same firm. In this post, I’ll share how I helped them to become web developer (using Ruby on Rails) and…

What happens when a private method of the superclass is overridden in Ruby? — As Ruby is an OOP language, a class can inherit from another one. In Ruby, the inherited class is commonly referred to as superclass — This name comes from the Class#superclass method that returns the directly inherited class of the receiver Here, Parent defines the role method. Child that…

An overview of all the benefits of applying a content marketing strategy when your funds are limited as a solopreneur — In this blogpost, I’ll share with you an honest return of experience on applying a content marketing strategy since 3 years. You strategy must be related to your products When I started my journey, I decided that my business would be related to something I like to do: sharing knowledge. I had 2 years of experience as a…

How to 3-dots operator can be used to automatically forward arguments to another method call — In Ruby, it occurs that a method directly forwards arguments to another one Here, forwarding *args, **kwargs, &blk is redundant and it impacts the readability of the code. To overcome this problem, Ruby 2.7 introduced the arguments forwarding shorthand In the above example, everything passed to Exporter.run is…

An honest return of experience on how I generated income as a web developer without working as a freelancer. — CHILL AS HARD AS YOU HUSTLE... — Master Yoda In 2017, I started to be bored with only generating revenues through freelance work. So I decided to try as hard as possible to generate $10 000/month without freelance work and with a minimum of time spent on this task. I’m…

An overview of the defined? keyword with a use case from the Ruby source code.. and an optimization tip! — In this article, we’re going to explore the following topics: the defined? keyword defined? in the context of resolv-replace defined? yield vs block_given? The defined? keyword In Ruby, the defined? keyword returns a string that represents the type of entity passed as an argument. …