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module UniqueJob extend ActiveSupport::Concern class_methods do
Deduplicating Active Job enqueues in Rails
concurrency
idempotency
caching
Advanced
9 steps
ruby
class OrderMailerPreview < ActionMailer::Preview def confirmation OrderMailer.confirmation(sample_order) end
Previewing Rails mailers with sample data
mailer-previews
test-fixtures
in-memory-objects
Beginner
6 steps
ruby
def render_table(rows) return "(no data)" if rows.empty? columns = rows.flat_map(&:keys).uniq
Rendering an ASCII table in Ruby
text-formatting
column-alignment
recursion
Intermediate
8 steps
ruby
class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base ALLOWED_REDIRECT_HOSTS = [nil, ENV.fetch("APP_HOST", "app.example.com")].freeze def store_return_to(location = request.fullpath)
Safe post-login redirects in Rails
open-redirect
session
authentication
Intermediate
9 steps
ruby
require 'set' class DirectoryWatcher def initialize(path, pattern: '**/*', interval: 1.0)
Polling for file changes in Ruby
polling
filesystem
diffing
Intermediate
7 steps
ruby
class HashDiff Change = Struct.new(:from, :to) def self.call(before, after)
Diffing two hashes in Ruby
set-operations
struct
enumerable
Intermediate
7 steps
ruby
module CreditCard module_function def valid?(number)
Validating credit card numbers with Luhn
checksum
luhn-algorithm
validation
Intermediate
6 steps
ruby
class UserColor GOLDEN_RATIO_CONJUGATE = 0.618033988749895 def initialize(username)
Deriving a stable color from a username
hashing
color-theory
deterministic-mapping
Intermediate
7 steps
ruby
namespace :counter_cache do desc "Recalculate comments_count for posts after a backfill" task warm_post_comments: :environment do scope = Post.where(comments_count: nil).or(Post.where("comments_count < 0"))
Backfilling counter caches in a Rake task in Rails
counter-cache
batching
rake-tasks
Intermediate
6 steps
ruby
class ToastBroadcaster include ActionView::RecordIdentifier def self.broadcast_to(user, message:, type: :notice)
How Turbo Stream toasts broadcast in Rails
turbo-streams
service-object
real-time
Intermediate
6 steps
ruby
class TemplateInterpolator PLACEHOLDER = /\{\{\s*([\w.]+)\s*\}\}/ def initialize(strict: false)
Interpolating templates with dotted keys in Ruby
regex
string-interpolation
hash-traversal
Intermediate
6 steps
ruby
class KeyTransformer def self.camelize(data) new.camelize(data) end
Recursively camelizing nested Ruby data
recursion
data-transformation
pattern-matching
Intermediate
7 steps
ruby
module Paginatable extend ActiveSupport::Concern private
A reusable pagination concern in Rails
pagination
concerns
http-headers
Intermediate
8 steps
ruby
class Api::MessagesController < ApiController before_action :authenticate_api_key! rate_limit to: 100,
Layered API rate limiting in Rails
rate-limiting
api-authentication
throttling
Intermediate
9 steps
ruby
class Order < ApplicationRecord include AASM belongs_to :warehouse
Modeling an order lifecycle with AASM in Rails
state machine
guards
callbacks
Intermediate
10 steps
ruby
require "timeout" require "net/http" class RemoteInventoryClient
Bounding a slow HTTP call with Timeout in Ruby
timeout
error-handling
http
Intermediate
6 steps
ruby
require "base64" require "json" module Attachment
Packing binary attachments into JSON
serialization
base64
json
Intermediate
8 steps
ruby
require "yaml" class FrontMatter DELIMITER = /\A---\s*\n(.*?)\n---\s*\n?(.*)\z/m
Parsing YAML front matter in Ruby
parsing
regular-expressions
yaml
Intermediate
8 steps