Polymorphic Attributes in Rails – Part 1
Sometimes model attributes need to have more structure than a simple string or number. In part 1 of a 2-part series on ActiveRecord polymorphic attrib…
String Cleaning with Avdi
Master Ruby's power tools for cleaning up and normalizing strings.
Episode 524: Data Munging Play-by-Play Part 2 with Avdi Grimm
Part 2/2 of a play-by-play of a recent Ruby data-munging coding session. More fun with regexes, lazy enumerators, and more!
Episode 523: Data Munging Play-by-Play Part 1 with Avdi Grimm
Check out this play-by-play of a recent Ruby data-munging coding session, with commentary on live/fast feedback, lazy enumerators, and more!
Faker
Learn about a useful tool for generating realistic-but-fake data for examples and tests.
Combination
Understand when and how to use Ruby's array combination methods.
Group By
Grouping data by various properties is easy in Ruby, and there are more uses for it than you might think...
Values
Quick, easy, minimal immutable Value Objects in Ruby
Array Product
Intention-revealing array combinations in Ruby.
Array Function
How to reliably normalize inputs into arrays in Ruby