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monoRails cover a few things: 1. weekly picks of trending and must-read Ruby on Rails blogs 2. regular posts about Ruby on Rails features, industry use cases, tools, and other resources inspired by working as a ROR developer as a my day job.

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Ruby tap() vs yield_self()

2 HN points • 08 Feb 24
  1. tap() method yields self to the block and returns self for method chaining.
  2. tap() is useful for updating an object and chaining operations over it.
  3. yield_self() method passes self to the block and returns the result, useful when needing custom values.

Weekly Digest #2 : The Plan for Rails 8

0 implied HN points • 11 Feb 24
🕹 Technology Programming Web Development Software Testing Ruby on Rails Programming Web Development Testing Tools Frameworks
  1. Rails 8 is planning new features like a background worker, cache backend, framework for mobile notifications, and more development tools.
  2. The article discusses the internal workings and design decisions of Sidekiq, a popular background processing tool for Ruby.
  3. Understanding the Rails router is important for developers to grasp the concepts of routing, named routes, and different types of routes in a Ruby on Rails application.

ActiveRecord: Top 10 Ways To Query Single Record

0 implied HN points • 06 Feb 24
  1. Use find() method with primary key to retrieve a specific record.
  2. find_by() finds the first matching record based on specified conditions.
  3. find_sole_by() ensures only one record is returned and no duplicates exist.