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If you're the Acting Ensign Crusher of Rails developers, you've probably heard about background jobs but are a little lost. They're essential for building modern, responsive applications. But let's be honest, the thought of adding another service to your stack can be...
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If you’ve been working with Ruby for more than five minutes, you’ve probably heard about modules. They’re a great way to share behavior across multiple classes without getting tangled in inheritance chains that resemble an over-leveled Zubat spamming Confuse Ray. But...
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As many of you might know Rails is now twenty years old; that's two years older than it needs to be to able to be executed by the state or sent to kill people on the other-side of the world in the US, but a year shy of ordering a Sam Adams or pack of Camels....
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