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Rake Routes

by Stephen Ball

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2020

October

A simple language spec isn’t a feature when you’re building applications The Fastest Possible Tests

April

Shrink your data into bitfields (and out again)

February

Every “if” statement is an object waiting to be extracted

January

Choose Generic Tools

2019

December

Hyperlinks you might find interesting — #4 Running bundle install on rails master

November

Use tldr for command line examples Friday Lunch Links — #3 Friday Lunch Links — #2 Logical Solver: Turn facts into conclusions Programming with jq Command line tools - jq Friday Lunch Links — #1

October

Why diversity matters Music for coding - October 2019 Code puzzles are a poor way to gauge technical candidates

January

Add vim to a pipeline with vipe

2018

December

Connecting Objects with Observable

2016

September

Let’s write a shell script

August

What’s a $PATH anyway?

2013

December

Let’s Use Hwacha to Scan URLs

June

Deliberate Git

March

Customize Your IRB

February

Program Like a Videogamer

January

Gem Spotlight: interactive_editor

2012

August

Things Most Interviewees Fail to Discover

April

Rails isn’t for beginners

March

How to use bundler instead of rvm gemsets How to write (and test) a gem to serve static files on the Rails asset pipeline A Taste of Metaprogramming

February

Fun with Rock, Paper, Scissors Let’s Write a Gem: Part 2 Let’s Write a Gem: Part 1 Increase Rails Performance with Database Indexes Parsing Dates and Times from Strings using strptime Anonymous blocks as function arguments in Ruby