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Enumerator and Lazy Evaluation in Ruby — Processing Large Collections Without Blowing Memory

Most Ruby developers reach for map, select, and each without thinking twice — and for small arrays, that’s totally fine. But the moment you’re working with large datasets, external files, API paginated responses,

Rajan Bhattarai Rajan Bhattarai 12 min read
Rails

Action Cable Channels and Broadcasting — A Practical Setup Guide

Most Rails apps start request-response and stay that way. Then a product requirement lands — live notifications, a chat feature, a dashboard that updates without refreshing — and suddenly you’re looking at WebSockets.

Rajan Bhattarai Rajan Bhattarai 10 min read
Developer tips

Git Workflow Best Practices — The Habits That Keep Teams Moving Fast

Git is the one tool every developer on a team shares, which makes how you use it either a productivity multiplier or a constant source of friction. The mechanics are easy to learn;

Rajan Bhattarai Rajan Bhattarai 11 min read
Ruby 3

Regular Expressions in Ruby — A Practical Guide That Skips the Theory

Regular expressions have a reputation for being write-only code — you craft them with intense focus, they work, and three months later neither you nor anyone else can read them. That reputation is

Rajan Bhattarai Rajan Bhattarai 8 min read
Rails

ActiveRecord Scopes and Query Objects — Keeping Your Queries Organized

Queries scattered across controllers, models, and background jobs are one of the most common maintainability problems in Rails apps. A where clause written inline in a controller is invisible to the next developer

Rajan Bhattarai Rajan Bhattarai 8 min read
Developer tips

How to Actually Ship Your Side Project — The Developer's Guide to Finishing

The developer graveyard is full of side projects. Half-built apps, promising ideas that reached MVP and no further, abandoned repos with commits from two years ago. Starting is easy — the problem is

Rajan Bhattarai Rajan Bhattarai 10 min read
Ruby 3

Exception Handling in Ruby — rescue, ensure, retry, and raise Done Right

Exception handling is one of those topics that feels simple until you hit a subtle bug caused by rescuing too broadly, retrying without a limit, or swallowing errors that should surface. Ruby’s exception

Rajan Bhattarai Rajan Bhattarai 8 min read
Rails

Rails Caching Strategies — From Low-Level Cache to Russian Doll

Caching is how Rails apps go from “works fine with 10 users” to “works fine with 10,000 users” without rewriting everything. Rails ships a complete caching toolkit — low-level key-value cache, fragment caching,

Rajan Bhattarai Rajan Bhattarai 9 min read
Developer tips

Deep Work for Developers — Getting Real Hours Back in a World of Interruptions

Software development is cognitively one of the most demanding professions there is. Holding a complex system in working memory, tracing execution paths, spotting the subtle interaction between two pieces of code — these

Rajan Bhattarai Rajan Bhattarai 11 min read
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