How to Protect Individual Resources with Passwords

User authentication in Rails is a solved problem but how can we protect individual resources with a password? It turns out that all we need is vanilla Rails and not that much code.

How to Reduce Test Interference in Minitest

Global state can easily lead to interference between test cases and cause random failures. In this article, we’ll discuss a technique for alleviating this problem when reducing the global state is infeasible.

Numbering Copies Using Enumerators

Copying a file in a file manager results in adding a copy counter to the file name. In this article, we’ll devise a simple and elegant algorithm based on Enumerator for doing the same in a Rails app.

How to Reduce Memory Usage by Tuning Gemfile

Rails is known for many things but memory effectiveness is not one of them. By default, it loads all gems, used and unused, which contributes to the overall memory footprint. Fortunately, we can easily eliminate this waste without touching the app.

The Architecture No One Needs

Single-page apps are all the rage nowadays. Many praise their vague technical benefits while ignoring tremendous development costs.

How to Speed up Your Tests without Touching the Code

The larger the test suite the slower it gets. This is an obvious yet annying truth. In this article, I present a simple and generic technique for improving test suite performance (almost five-fold in my case) without touching the code base at all.