Woman on Rails

Do a quick online search for “Rails Default Scope” and you will get a ton of articles: why you should not use default scope at all, why default scope is the root of all evil, how to remove default scope from your project. These articles often have a strong negative opinion about default scope. But is default scope really that bad? The default scope discussion has been going on since at least 2015, almost a decade of Rails development, and people are still talking about it.

Have you ever thought about the to_a and to_ary methods for the Array class? Are they the same? Why do we have two similar methods? What is the difference? What about implementations of these methods in classes other than Array? In this article I want to answer these questions. So let’s get started!

From time to time, when I create a code, people ask me: Is this working? , or they tell me: I didn’t know that. Being in those situations allows me to understand that something normal for me can be new for someone else. So, today I would like to share with you some Ruby tips and tricks. I hope you will like them.

A few days ago, I worked on a customer project, and I wanted to use one line map but with an argument for a method inside this map. I never had this need before. Normally in one line map, I do something like .map(&:next). This time I needed something else. So, I did a short research on how can I do that. The results of this research were so interesting to me that I decided to create an article about this topic. So let’s get started!

I often say: Premature optimization is the root of all evil. and this is true. Nevertheless, I will talk today about optimization. The optimization of work environment or, in other words, efficiency is very important. Who doesn’t want to work faster? Do the work and have more time for yourself? For sure, I want. So, today I will share some tips and keyboard shortcuts for Slack.

People often ask me what they should do to be a programmer. In most cases, they expect advice like: read this book, learn this technology or do this course. They want the silver bullet answer, but it’s not so simple. Of course, you can graduate and feel more confident in programming. Even then, you can be a bad programmer. Programming is one of these fields, where you always evolving, improving your skills, your mindset, and learning new things. Today, I would like to show you some skills, which are, in my opinion, important for a programmer.

I bought a Logitech G915 TKL keyboard at a beginning of the 2021 year. This keyboard works pretty well on Windows and Logitech G Hub software. There is a ton of ways to customize it. It can be fun. The problem comes when you cannot normally install G Hub software on your system, like on Ubuntu. Since I use the Logitech G915 TKL keyboard for a while with my Ubuntu, I would like to share what I already know about customizing it on Linux.

In the testing world, we have stubs, mocks, dummy objects, and so on. It can be confusing what to use and when to use it. I would like to organize all of those terms in a more accessible way. There is one problem. In many different sources, we have discrepancies regards to those terms. I will show you my understanding of this topic. Of course, based on chosen sources.