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Every developer knows the feeling: you’ve inherited a codebase that’s seen too many cooks in the kitchen. The classes are bloated, methods…

A complete overview of blocks, block references, and procs.

An exhaustive book list about Ruby and Ruby on Rails

What happens when a superclass private method is overridden in Ruby?

How to 3-dots operator can be used to automatically forward arguments to another method call

An overview of the defined? keyword with a use case from the Ruby source code.. and an optimization tip!

An overview of the different ways to make class methods private in Ruby

Why the resolv-replace library monkey-patches the SOCKSSocket class under specific conditions.

In this article we’re going to show you how to implement an algorithm to handle quota-based dispatching using pure Ruby

A deep dive into `module_function` and `extend self`

An overview of how to interact with HereDocs as argument

A deep dive into the implementation of the Function Composition mechanism in Ruby.

How resources can help you to avoid custom routes?

As your project grows, you add more and more routes. The problem here is that your routes can be very complicated to manage over the time.

Why do we refer to database structure updates as migrations in ActiveRecord?

An overview of the UUID specification and the Digest::UUID module

Why the Ruby philosophy is the exact opposite of other programming languages?

An overview of the execution context of blocks in Ruby

An overview of the String class since Ruby 1.8

In this article, we’re going to talk about scopes for modules and nested modules..

In this article, we’re going to explore the following topics: method and class scopes.

An overview of magic comments and the precedence rules applied to them

In a case statement the when clauses can take a range as parameter. As the when clause takes a range as parameter then instead of making…

What if I tell you that the Rails.env.production? method doesn’t really exist?.