In my previous posts, I examined how to enable data persistence in Sinatra using only the params hash and query parameters.

In the first part of this series on my first Sinatra web project, I explained on a general level the different tools we would be using to create a web application using Ruby. In this post, we’ll take an in-depth look at how…

Pry is a multi-purpose REPL (Read-Evaluate-Print-Loop) tool for Ruby. In other words, it is an alternate, much richer equivalent to IRB which enables you not only to evaluate expressions…

In my previous post, I explained the basics of Sinatra — how to set up your first GET route, making use of embedded Ruby templates and the erb Sinatra method, and how to start a local server…

In my previous post, we created a very simple Sinatra application to demonstrate how embedded Ruby works, and now we will delve much deeper into Sinatra itself. In my internet travels, I found precious few tutorials on…

One of my stories this week was to begin using simplecov. simplecov is a test coverage tool in Ruby, which creates neat HTML reports informing you how much of the testable lines of your source code (ignoring non-substantive lines that don’t need to be tested, in…

In my first blog post on SOLID, I examined the Single Responsibility Principle and Open-Closed Principle and related them to examples from my own coding background. Here I will cover the remaining 3 principles.