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- Don’t Email From Active Record Callbacks
- Watch Out For nil in Ranges
- Be Aware of nil values when using where.not()
- Prevent Links in Text Fields to Foil Spammers
- Protect your sign up form with Rack::Attack
- Clean up broken .dev domains
- Don't use instance variables in partials
- Secure Your Rails Staging Environment with HTTP Basic Authentication
- Be Careful Assigning to has_one Relations
- Replace Timecop With Rails’ Time Helpers in RSpec
- Use Multiple Migrations When Adding Database Constraints
- Always Force Booleans to be True or False
- Write long strings with wiggly HEREDOCs
- A scope should return a scope
- Don’t Loop & Do Work in Jobs
- Using pluck can save a bunch of memory
- Careful with present? when using ActiveRecord scopes
- Use the presence method
- Delegate to simplify your code
- Ignore PHP bots with Rack::Attack
- Use beginning and end of string in regular expressions
- Active Record’s first and last may not mean what you think
- A job should know whether to run itself
- Use Hash#fetch when using Rails params in controllers
- Stop robots and crawlers causing errors in your Rails application
- Check Your Database Indexes For ActiveRecord Scopes
- Only use named scopes outside models
- Avoid Writing SQL When Using ActiveRelation
- Enumerable avoids using temporary variables when looping
- Extract conditionals into well-named methods
- Be sparing when using unless
- Truthiness in Conditionals
- Set your page title in the view template using content_for
- Choose UUIDs for model IDs in Rails
- Use a pull request template
- Use simplecov in your Rails test suite
- Rescue specific errors. Avoid rescuing StandardError. Don’t rescue Exception.
- Don’t use default_scope. Ever.
- Use Rails’ naming conventions for dates & times
- Rails Naming Cringes
- AMP Project Pages on Ruby on Rails
- Simple Ruby/Rails Setup on macOS
- Benchmarking each_with_object Against inject when building Hashes from Arrays
- Serving a Jekyll Blog using Heroku
- Web Services used at ImpulseFlyer
- RedDotRubyConf 2012: Wrap up