Ruby on Rails

Doing more on reads vs writes

What do you like more in your application? Handling complexity when reading the data or when updating it?

Imagine you have a model such as Product with three potential date attributes:

• publication_on - Nominal date of…

What taking care of your teeth has in common with programming?

I don’t need to tell you why brushing your teeth and going to a dentist with a regular time manner is an important thing.

How I use bookmarks in RubyMine

RubyMine (and probably many other editors as well) have a nice feature called bookmarks. It lets you mark certain lines and easily navigate to them. I wanted to present you two scenarios in which I use the feature.

Editing big test/spec file

The biggest Rails code smell you should avoid to keep your app healthy

Which version of this Ruby code would you prefer to see in your codebase?

  def properties_names_hash
    out = {}
    properties.each do |property|
      out[property.name] = property.original_name
    end
    out
  end

or

def properties_names_hash…