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Dec 28, 2015

Building Workflows with Sidekiq Batches

A few weeks ago, Sidekiq’s creator, Mike Perham, posted a great article about how to handle Really Complex Workflows with Batches. His article shows how you can wait for a batch of jobs to complete before moving on to the next job/batch in the workflow.

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Jan 30, 2017

Navigating Vim projects like a Boss

I’ll admit it, I’m a Vim addict. I started using Vim while programming Ruby on Rails and quickly…

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Oct 29, 2014

Eager-loading Polymorphic Relationships in Rails

Update: The internal Preloader class has changed between Rails 3 and Rails 4. The code examples have been updated to reflect that.

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Oct 9, 2014

Customizing rails #to_partial_path

Rails is very helpful when it comes to automatically rendering a partial for a given object.

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Sep 20, 2014

Building a Range that counts backward

On Bike2020.com, we needed a select box to allow dealers to enter the model year of a bike…

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Jan 21, 2016

Phoenix acceptance tests on Semaphore CI

Plataformatec just published a great introduction to testing Phoenix apps with Hound. Hound is really cool because it gives you a nice API to build browser-based acceptance tests that exercise your complete application — from your Ember/React/Angular frontend…