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I have been using ROR for the last eight months and started loving this language because of the poetic way it allows me to write the code. In this journey, I have found some functions which helped me to keep the code short and improved readability significantly. 1. blank? and present? A common use case…
Introduction: Ruby is known for its flexibility and openness, allowing developers to customize and extend the language’s core functionality. One powerful way to do this is by using monkey patches. Monkey patching enables you to modify or add new behavior to existing Ruby classes or modules without changing their original source code. In this blog,…
When a particular API processing slow or performing a heavy calculation or have heavy DB queries. One of the solution to optimize the API that comes to our mind is to cache the response for appropriate amount of time. This will help us to improve the performance by overcoming the mentioned issues. It is also…
Rails allow us to update attributes using different instance and class methods, understanding these methods allows us to avoid insane bugs. Let’s explore these methods attribute= Syntax: As you can see this is an instance method and the data is not written to the DB yet. we have to run x.save to save it. write_attribute…
Consider we have a model student when we access data from this using the following command. The variable student contains the data of a student. Each student has enrolled in many courses, which is another model. On printing the student, we get the following data Consider if I update the course model, The expected behavior…
Recently I have been introduced to ruby, while working on the project I saw this function is been used many times in our existing codebase. Let’s discuss what problem it solves. Consider you want to call a list of functions dynamically, eg. Consider an interaction to list animals data which takes the animal name as…