Best Practices

False Positive, Integration Blind Spots, Integration Blind Spots, Interface Misuse, Refactoring Barriers...

One of the biggest issues with fixtures is their brittleness.

Gemfile best practices: Screening Gems, the TAM Method, Gem modifications, Cleaning and Maintaining your Gemfile

Scalable and DRY approach to iterative model testing in Rails. Don't loop through arrays to create test cases.

5 approaches for code in controllers. We don't reinvent the wheel, we love our gems, unlike the JS community.

Typical mishandling of Active Record when a Senior Dev learns Rails: not utilizing association, forcing SQL management in the controller.

Reduce complexity in Rails models with the method delegation, extraction, and composition.

Views are for presenting data. Not preparing it. Logic and data manipulation in views leads to complexity and code duplication.

In Rails, it's tempting to chain method calls due to ActiveRecord associations. But it just creates a maintenance trap.