Drawing on the original Refactoring book that used Java as the programming language for examples, this new edition of Refactory Ruby explains how to apply refactoring techniques in a Ruby context, adding some refactoring that are specific to this language.
Have you ever looked at Ruby code and struggled to grasp what the code actually does despite understanding all the Ruby language bits the code uses? Or maybe you’ve tried debugging a problem where the stack trace left you wondering, “How could the program possibly get to this place in …
Groupon recently completed a year-long project to migrate its U.S. web traffic from a monolithic Ruby on Rails application to a new multi-application stack with substantial results. Learn the strategies, techniques, and tools used to peel apart a monolithic application, and then integrate dozens of smaller applications into a cohesive, …
This presentation looks at what kind of tools the Ruby community is good at building, what kind of tools we are bad at, and most of all, some of the tooling we should be working on to really improve our ecosystem and drive more developers to this wonderful language.
This talk surveys the current state of immutable data in Ruby, JavaScript and Python, comparing and contrasting it to Clojure. Following the rise of Clojure, many of us have become aware of the idea of immutable data structures and their benefits.
As your application grows in complexity, breaking it up into independent components that communicate over a stable API contract can reduce that complexity into smaller maintainable concerns. Instead of deploying multiple Rails applications, there are leaner alternatives in the Ruby ecosystem such as Middleman and Grape.
