Questions tagged [ruby]
Questions about Ruby, dynamic, reflective, general-purpose object-oriented programming language that combines syntax inspired by Perl with Smalltalk-like features.
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What is the problem with whitespace in C that Ruby allegedly repeated?
I'm reading the book The Secret Life of Programs by Jonathan E. Steinhart. In it, he mentions in passing:
many consider the handling of whitespace in Ruby to be a replay of of a mistake in the ...
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rails, how to refactor nest if statements? [duplicate]
I'm working a project where I found another developer wrote a method as you see it below.
How would I clean those IF statements and refactor this method.
Also is it ok ti set a variable to nil ?
def ...
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Tracking flakey tests in Ruby on Rails / Rspec - is there a way to do this?
Currently working on a Ruby-on-Rails codebase, testing is done with Rspec. We use BuildKite to run tests.
We are in a situation where sometimes tests will fail, and upon a retry or two, pass. AKA, we ...
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Best way to renew OAuth token before expiry
I am building a simple application built in Rails that allows the client to connect to a third party api to sync customer data.
The customer inputs their username and password and my application ...
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How to create input data for unit tests for an API client?
I am building the initial set of unit tests for my team's legacy API client system. We have been writing integration tests, but have no unit tests.
It's a Sinatra server that accepts requests from our ...
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Is it a good idea to violate the DRY rule for keeping the action in proper context?
Maybe that's simple, but it confuses me. I have such a code now:
describe VarnishLogExaminer::Entry do
let(:entry) do
file_string = File.read('./spec/assets/varnish_example.xml')
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Sharing ActiveRecord class between two Rails app with gem
We have several Rails applications using the same ActiveRecord, Book. For simplicity let us assume we have only these two:
BookWarehouseApp (that deals how new book are added, or other inventory ...
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How to identify require expressions that are not needed?
How to tell if we have unused require expressions?
For example:
require 'colorize'
require_relative './helpers'
puts 'Hello, world!'
This is a very simple example but there can be larger/complex ...
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Best RoR pattern for special instances of a subclass
I'm trying to figure out the best way to "partially" use the validates_uniqueness_of validator for a particular case of problem.
Let's say I have a Book class with multiple comments, with the Comment ...
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Where is it appropriate to implement the split_array method
I am writing an implementation of a binary search tree and in doing this I need a method that splits an array in two.
I am unsure where it is appropriate to place this method. What I mean by "where ...
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How to efficiently process CPU intensive tasks on the server in the background
I built an audio processing web app using Rails. The user uploads a song to the website. The song is then decomposed into individual elements and then modified and recombined.
I am using a an open ...
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What is the cleanest way of writing a function with conditional statement with many returning options?
Maybe that's simple, but I'm a little confused.
I have such a Ruby code:
def my_function(found_objects)
# ...
if found_objects.second
return CoreObjectFactory.get_object(found_objects.second,...
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Ruby on Rails newbie question, regarding general design for models/controllers for feedback app/ my thinking
I am working on a little project which essentially allows me as the administrator to upload new products to the app (each product would be a video explaining product) which would have its own specific ...
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Best practices for internationalization: composed sentences?
I am working on a project where clients are able to create objects in a database. Each of these objects has a description string that describes the object. Let's assume we are looking at an object ...
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What is a good way of satisfying open/closed principle in this case
I have a class that looks like this:
class MyClass
# takes an array of actions
def initialize(actions)
@actions = actions
end
def act
@actions.each {|a| a.do}
end
end
class ...
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Symbol definition in Ruby
I am a beginner in Ruby and I am trying to wrap my head around symbols. Would you say that my current understanding, summarized in the following (oversimplified) definition, is true for most purposes?
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Refactoring - is it appropriate to simply rewrite code, as long as all tests pass?
I recently watched "All the Little Things" from RailsConf 2014. During this talk, Sandi Metz refactors a function that includes a large nested if-statement:
def tick
if @name != 'Aged Brie' &&...
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Argument for staying on Rails instead of migrating to .net MVC?
I work for a Rails SaaS platform that was recently acquired by a primarily Microsoft shop. They are pushing the issue we need to rewrite the entire application in .NET. It's very clear they know ...
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Best practice to add polymorphic attachments to a post
I'm currently trying to figure out how to solve following problem:
I have a model called Post that has, among other attributes, link_1_text, link_1_url, link_2_text and link_2_url for users to add ...
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What is the complexity of find and checking prime numbers?
I'm trying to figure out the complexities of these two functions that I've written but could not understand.def
First, I thought it is supposed be O(N). But it is not clear how many times the loop ...
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Ruby: Exceptions for flow control inside an .each block
Consider the following minimal example:
class SomeException < StandardError
end
class Example
@@logger = Logger.new
@@failure_count = 0
def do_a_thing(array)
raise SomeException unless ...
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How to HTTP request to a website that uses robot verification
I need to make some get/post requests to a website that I have credential to log in. I plan to do this with Ruby and Net::Http. As I'm new to this kind of experience, I'm struggling with the fact that ...
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One-liners vs. readability: when to stop reducing code? [closed]
Context
I recently got interested into producing better formatted code. And by better I mean "following rules endorsed by enough people to consider it a good practice" (since there will never be one ...
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Understanding Single Responsibility Pattern (SRP) [duplicate]
According to the Single Responsibility Pattern (SRP) a method or class should have one responsibility. I have read a couple of sources and viewed some videos and I would like to understand it by ...
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How do deal with an IM bot that needs to run minutely tasks while also waiting for commands
I am writing a bot for Matrix using Ruby which allows users to subscribe to RSS feeds and when a new item shows up on the feed it gets sent to the room.
The problem I have come up against is how do I ...
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Should I unit test my Cucumber helper functions/classes?
I'm very new at writing Cucumber tests. I'm writing Ruby helper functions to assist Cucumber step definitions. Should there be a separate set of tests to test my helper functions i.e. unit tests?
The ...
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DDD: How to avoid breaking encapsulation and leaking technical concerns to the domain during model rehydration?
When applying DDD principles in Ruby, I feel that Active Record pattern ends up polluting the domain model, while I'm not sure how to implement JSON deserialization without breaking encapsulation.
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How would I integrate python code into Ruby code?
For instance, if I wanted to make a game which used a Python main file, but have another file with Ruby methods on it, how would I call those methods individually?
Secondly, how could I make a Ruby ...
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Should the Application Service in DDD use references to non-root entities and value objects inside an aggregate?
I understand that objects external to an aggregate shouldn't hold references to entities and value objects belonging to the aggregate. My question if this also applies to the Application Service that ...
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Is it advisable to use hashes as DTOs in Ruby when applying DDD?
It seems to me that Ruby hashes would be a good option to implement the Data Transfer Objects that the Application Services receive from the client code as commands and queries requests.
For ...
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How to better factor classes that switch on type code
We have a persistence backed object, and it has a version field
in the database. Assume there's lots of unrelated code in this
class.
#
# We're branching on this "version" field, and we return one
# ...
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Celluloid actors parallel work slow?
I'm new to actors and just playing around in ruby using Celluloid. I have this code below
module Enumerable
# Simple parallel map using Celluloid::Futures
def pmap(&block)
futures = map { ...
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Implement an actor-based concurrent language in ruby?
How would one implement an actor-based concurrent language in ruby? My thought is that only the correct way of creating programs is using actors, but I'm not entirely sure on how this could be done, ...
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Creating a better translation for a node.js api to ruby
My client has a nodejs SDK that fetches entries using a client that makes http requests. Their api looks like this:
var Query = Client.ContentType('blog').Query();
Query
.where("title", ...
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How do I create idiomatic error interfaces in Ruby?
I'm developing a Ruby on Rails app. The app contains a service wrapping an external REST API, called from a controller, with several possible error states. The current implementation returns the ...
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Finding duplicate email addresses. How heavily should I normalize them?
I have a big list of email addresses and I want to find out which of those are duplicates.
How to define "duplicate" is exactly what I'm posting about here.
I know from experience that with Gmail, ...
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Type Conversions in a dynamically typed language - Where should the conversion happen?
I was recently debugging a bit of code where the previous implementation looked something like this:
# controller for group/customers
def index
@customers = current_user.available_customers(param[:...
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Component needs to invoke class methods and instance methods (via ORM), how to structure
An interesting design choice/discussion has cropped up in code review, and I would like to understand more about proposed solutions. The original review includes re-factoring of a messy piece of code ...
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Testing: why expect_any_instance_of is considered a design smell?
In this question, I'll use a ruby example, but I think it is a general question.
According to the most popular Ruby's test framework (RSpec), mocking any instance of a class (allow_any_instance_of) ...
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Can I use python 3.5.2 on my machine for development if the client is 3.4?
Here is the situation, I wish to use the last programming language of ruby, python and some more on my development machine, but the server where it will be is not last version of that programming ...
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API oriented web app for both public and private consumptions in Ruby
In traditional Rail app, we need to deal with controller/model/action and has a view that generate HTML output. Now
There are many JS framework like backbone/react that allow us to code client side ...
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Conceptual similarity between Ruby's and JavaScript's inheritance models
To clear some potential confusion, let me start with the following statements
As far as I understand, inheritance is mostly about dynamic dispatch.
I understand how virtual pointer table based ...
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Why did Ruby creator chose to use the concept of Symbols?
tl;dr: Would there be a language-agnostic definition of Symbols and a reason to have them in other languages?
So, why did the Ruby creator use the concept of symbols in the language?
I ask this ...
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When is it ok to instantiate all of my objects upfront?
I am currently working with a contractor who's code instantiates a large number of objects upfront at the start of the application. This application is written in ruby, but I wonder how something ...
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database architecture for ecommerce app
I’m creating an app that allows users to post, sell, and purchase items. Every item has a count integer attribute that is set by the initial user and which is reduced by n with each purchase. When ...
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Name of a symbol in ruby
I'm very new to ruby. I have to code in ruby at work and a coworker gave me some tests he wrote in ruby. I have some difficulties to understand a line he wrote.
We have a class like this:
class Port
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Are integration tests meant to repeat all unit tests?
Let's say I have a function (written in Ruby, but should be understandable by everyone):
def am_I_old_enough?(name = 'filip')
person = Person::API.new(name)
if person.male?
return person....
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Historic (and prehistoric) dates in Ruby [closed]
In Ruby, is there a standard class or gem to work with dates that can be - but are not required to be - historical in nature? The dates have precision (to the nearest million years, decade, century, ...
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Choosing Between Ruby and Python for a FS Microservice Backend in Node App [closed]
I have been working on a application that up until now has been pure Node. However I am concerned about performance and overhead since the application performs a lot of file system operations (Copy ...
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Best way to build a JSON API coupled with HTML views in a Rails project
I've got a Rails eCommerce project communicating with an iOS app. The iOS app receives JSON data from the Rails back-end, but there's also HTML rendering when a user comes to the project from his ...
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