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Alexandre's Blog
Articles about Ruby, Rails and programming in general.
Latest posts
Perfecting Your Rails Form: Nested Attributes
In this second part of the series, let's explore nested attributes how they work and why they are so complex.
Perfecting Your Rails Form: Atribute Accessors
In this first part of a series diving into Rails forms, let's explore Rails conventions used to bridge object accessors with forms.
RSpec Testing Levels
Testing journey when using RSpec.
What is business logic?
Writing code that understands business needs
Empathetic coding
Code like a leader, not a micromanager
To Push or Not to Push the Crosswalk Button?
A story about responsibility, mental load, design, empathetic coding and traffic lights.
Identify i18n translation keys
A simple module to help us identify what translation keys are on any page.
On writing better service objects
Let's write Ruby like we write Rails applications and see how we can improve our use of service objects in the process.
Testing Rails Scopes
A method to test ActiveRecord model scopes properly.
Please show me a Gemfile
One simple file to learn all about a Ruby application.
Service object alternatives: Serializers
How to improve a specific type of service object and, who knows, get rid of it completely.
Skipping existing ActiveRecord validations
How to skip existing rails validations with validations contexts.
Retest - Docker & feature Specs
This article describes the Docker setup used in the end-to-end (2E2) testing of the rubygem retest.
Pragmatic refactoring
99 Bottles of OOP book review and introducing retest, a gem to help you refactor code on the fly.
Testing ActiveRecord concerns
How to test Rails concerns for ActiveRecord models with temporary database tables.
Service object alternatives: ActiveModel
How to use ActiveModel::Model to substitute service objects encountered in Rails codebases.
Reflect on past commits
Can you understand your old code? A quick way to reflect and give feedback to your past self.