Bindings and Lexical Scope in Ruby
By Jeff Kreeftmeijer on
In this edition of Ruby Magic, we’ll show how scope works in Ruby’s methods and closures. We’ll also take a peek at how ERB uses the binding object to render templates.
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Our team handles over 30 billion requests each month. We run a stack with Ruby, MongoDB, Rust, Go, React and are improving this all the time.
By Jeff Kreeftmeijer on
In this edition of Ruby Magic, we’ll show how scope works in Ruby’s methods and closures. We’ll also take a peek at how ERB uses the binding object to render templates.
read moreBy Robert Beekman on
A post about the statistics we use at AppSignal and how they work.
read moreBy Julik Tarkhanov on
In this edition of Ruby Magic, we shine a light on Enumerable and Fiber to explain flow controlling enumerables and turning blocks inside out.
read moreBy Miguel Palhas on
A dive into Elixir's GenStage module and backpressure using an example querying the blockchain
read moreBy Peter Ohler on
Using a mental model with a Batman metaphor we explain testing asynchonous threads in Ruby
read moreBy Thijs Cadier on
In this edition of Ruby Magic, we'll show you how to use code written in C from Ruby.
read moreBy Robert Beekman on
Share code with yourself or others by utilizing the RubyGems ecosystem.
read moreBy Jeff Kreeftmeijer on
How to upgrade code in a running Elixir application without restarting. 🏎
read moreBy Elvio Viçosa Jr on
The second part of the "ActiveRecord vs. Ecto" series, in which Batman and Batgirl fight over querying databases and we compare apples and oranges.
read moreBy Benedikt Deicke on
Even classes are objects in Ruby. In this edition of Ruby Magic, we'll look at class-level instance variables by creating a module for wrapping an object's methods.
read moreBy Elvio Viçosa Jr on
In part one of this two-part series, we'll compare ActiveRecord and Ecto by looking at how they handle database schemas and migration.
read moreBy Tom de Bruijn on
We'll look into difference between explicit casting and implicit coercing in Ruby, and the difference between typecasting Leonard Nimoy and Michael Keaton.
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