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Using Sonic Pi To Play Music With Ruby
Amplifying the impact of your code
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Inheritance: Derivative Songwriting
There are only 12 notes to choose from
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EXPLAIN Like I'm Five
Five ways to run EXPLAIN on your Rails database queries
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React Native's Animated API
Everything you need to know for production-ready animations.
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Useful Sidekiq Patterns
Sidekiq workers are awesome, here are a few ways we think you can make them more awesome!
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PRY like a PRO
PRY is one of the most commonly used gems by Ruby devs, but are you getting the most out of its features?
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Tell Don't Ask: Benefits and Limitations
"Tell Don't Ask" is a great principle, but it's possible to take it too far.
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How to Properly Eager Load Associations
Eager loading data is great...unless ActiveRecord is requerying anyway
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ActiveRecord Cannot Read Minds
ActiveRecord - 60% of the time, it understands you every time
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