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Ruby code explainers
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require "securerandom" require "time" class ICalEvent
Building an iCalendar file in Ruby
serialization
string-formatting
file-formats
Intermediate
10 steps
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require "thread" class ConnectionPool class TimeoutError < StandardError; end
Building a thread-safe connection pool in Ruby
concurrency
resource-pooling
mutex
Advanced
8 steps
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class Admin::AccountsController < Admin::BaseController before_action :set_account, only: :destroy def destroy
A guarded destroy action in Rails
controllers
callbacks
transactions
Intermediate
8 steps
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class MailingListDeduplicator GMAIL_DOMAINS = %w[gmail.com googlemail.com].freeze def initialize(subscribers)
Deduplicating a mailing list by canonical email
deduplication
normalization
service object
Intermediate
8 steps
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class ProgressBar BAR_WIDTH = 40 def initialize(total, io: $stdout)
Building a terminal progress bar in Ruby
state tracking
terminal output
time estimation
Intermediate
8 steps
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class Product < ApplicationRecord scope :search, ->(query) { return all if query.blank?
Building a multi-term search scope in Rails
arel
scopes
full-text search
Advanced
7 steps
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module Rack class MaintenanceMode RETRY_AFTER = 3600
A Rack maintenance-mode middleware in Rails
middleware
rack
http-status
Intermediate
8 steps
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class ImageNormalizer ORIENTATION_TRANSFORMS = { 1 => ->(img) {}, 2 => ->(img) { img.flop },
Correcting EXIF orientation in Ruby
lookup-table
lambdas
image-processing
Intermediate
7 steps
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module RequestTagging class Middleware def initialize(app) @app = app
Per-request context with CurrentAttributes in Rails
middleware
thread-safety
logging
Intermediate
7 steps
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class Spellchecker ALPHABET = ('a'..'z').to_a.freeze def initialize(dictionary)
Building a Norvig-style spellchecker in Ruby
edit-distance
levenshtein
dynamic-programming
Advanced
10 steps
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class Order < ApplicationRecord belongs_to :customer has_many :line_items has_many :products, through: :line_items
How scopes compose in a Rails model
scopes
activerecord
subqueries
Intermediate
7 steps
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require "charlock_holmes" class TextFileNormalizer DEFAULT_CONFIDENCE = 60
Normalizing text files to clean UTF-8 in Ruby
encoding
text-processing
file-io
Intermediate
8 steps
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require 'date' require 'set' class BusinessDayCalculator
Counting business days in Ruby
dates
sets
ranges
Intermediate
8 steps
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class Document < ApplicationRecord class StaleObjectError < StandardError def initialize(id) super("Document ##{id} was modified by another process")
Optimistic locking with retries in Rails
optimistic-locking
concurrency
transactions
Advanced
8 steps
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class BackfillUsersFullName < ActiveRecord::Migration[7.1] disable_ddl_transaction! BATCH_SIZE = 5_000
How to backfill a column safely in Rails
migrations
batching
backfill
Intermediate
7 steps
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class ProjectsController < ApplicationController def new @project = current_account.projects.build load_form_collections
The new/create pattern in a Rails controller
mvc
strong-parameters
tenant-scoping
Intermediate
7 steps
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class Membership < ApplicationRecord belongs_to :organization belongs_to :user
Enforcing scoped uniqueness in Rails
validations
uniqueness
callbacks
Intermediate
8 steps
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class WebhookSignatureConstraint def initialize(provider) @provider = provider end
Verifying webhook signatures with Rails routing constraints
routing constraints
hmac
webhooks
Advanced
7 steps