There are situations where you need to make sure concurrent processes that could potentially be changing the same record don’t cause data inconsistencies. Let’s take a look at one example. In th...

In the previous episode, I explained how I like to test my Rails apps with an example. In this episode, I want to take that example one step further and rewrite it with Cucumber. Cucumber is a t...

A very common subject in software development is testing. However, it is not uncommon to see production-ready projects out there that either have a broken test suite that nobody takes care of or...

Ruby is a dynamic interpreted language and this time I’m gonna talk about how it handles classes and how dead simple it feels like. The day I learned what I’m gonna show you here I had my mind b...

Exceptions are tricky. Most people don’t give them the attention they deserve and I think it’s because most of the time they don’t really know what to do about them. In this episode I want to ta...