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Ruby 3

Pattern Matching in Ruby 3

Pattern matching landed in Ruby 2.7 as experimental and graduated to stable in Ruby 3.0. Most Ruby developers have heard of it; far fewer use it confidently in production code. This post cuts

Rajan Bhattarai Rajan Bhattarai 8 min read
Hotwire Turbo

Real-Time UI Updates with Turbo Streams in Rails 7 and 8

Real-time features used to mean reaching for ActionCable, writing JavaScript event listeners, and managing WebSocket state that lives entirely outside your Rails stack. Turbo Streams changed that equation entirely. Built into Rails 7

Rajan Bhattarai Rajan Bhattarai 7 min read
Career Personal branding

Why Developers Who Stay Quiet Get Overlooked (And How to Fix That)

You’ve shipped things that work. You’ve solved problems that stumped your team. You write clean code and know your domain deeply — but the promotion went to someone else, the consulting inquiry landed

Rajan Bhattarai Rajan Bhattarai 9 min read
Ruby 3

Exploring Endless Method Definitions in Ruby

Ruby has a reputation for flexibility and expressiveness, often encouraging developers to explore boundaries that many other languages restrict.

Rajan Bhattarai Rajan Bhattarai 8 min read
Authetication

Exploring the New Basic Authentication Generator in Rails 8

Rails 8 introduces a built-in authentication generator, streamlining the process of adding basic authentication to Rails applications.

Rajan Bhattarai Rajan Bhattarai 5 min read
Documentation

The Right Way to Write Documentation for Codebases

Effective documentation is crucial for the success and maintainability of any codebase. It serves as a roadmap for developers, aiding in understanding, collaboration, and future development.

Rajan Bhattarai Rajan Bhattarai 8 min read
Ruby 3

Mastering Ruby’s Closures - Blocks, Procs, and Lambdas Explained

As seasoned Ruby developers, we often leverage the language’s expressive syntax and powerful features to write clean and efficient code.

Rajan Bhattarai Rajan Bhattarai 6 min read
Optimization

Optimizing N+1 Queries in Rails

In the realm of Ruby on Rails development, the N+1 query problem is a notorious performance bottleneck.

Rajan Bhattarai Rajan Bhattarai 5 min read
Git

How to write better Commit messages

In collaborative software development, commit messages serve as the narrative thread that weaves together the evolution of a codebase.

Rajan Bhattarai Rajan Bhattarai 5 min read
Ruby 3

How Keyword Arguments Work in Ruby 3

Ruby 3.0 introduced significant changes to how keyword arguments are handled, aiming to enhance clarity and reduce ambiguity in method calls.

Rajan Bhattarai Rajan Bhattarai 4 min read
Security

Security features in Rails 7 & 8

Ruby on Rails has long been recognized for its emphasis on security, offering developers a robust framework to build secure web applications.

Rajan Bhattarai Rajan Bhattarai 7 min read
Remote work

Pair Programming tips for Remote Developers

In the evolving landscape of software development, remote work has become increasingly prevalent.

Rajan Bhattarai Rajan Bhattarai 4 min read
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