Understanding how things really work

Deep dives into Ruby, Rails, and the craft of software engineering.

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Software Design

Refactoring with Convergence Rules

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Software Design

Factory Method Pattern

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Software Design

Start With Ugly Code

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Software Design

Tests That Survive Change

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Software Design

Composition: Building with Parts

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Software Design

Duck Typing and Inheritance in Ruby

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Software Design

Messages Before Objects

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Software Design

Singleton Pattern

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Software Design

The Cost of Change in Software

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Software Design

Dependency Inversion Principle

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Software Design

Interface Segregation Principle

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Software Design

Liskov Substitution Principle

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Software Design

Open-Closed Principle

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Software Design

Value Objects in Ruby: The Idiomatic Way

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Software Design

Single Responsibility Principle

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The N+1 Query Problem in Active Record

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Testing in Ruby: From Scratch to Minitest and RSpec

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Sinatra Tutorial: Building a To-Do Application

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Build Your Own URL Shortener with Rack

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Persistent Connections in Ruby: Streaming Bodies, SSE, and WebSockets with Rack

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Rack for Ruby: The Complete Beginner’s Guide

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ERB: Embedding Ruby in HTML

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Using Ruby Libraries

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Do Not Use the System Ruby on macOS