Recent posts tagged code-refactoring

You’ve heard “keep controllers skinny, models thin” but how? The SOLID principles are a compact set of habits that keep Rails apps change-friendly as they grow. Here’s a practical, with bite-size Rails examples you can use today. What is SOLID? ...

A GitClear study found AI-generated code rife with duplication, indicating productivity gains could disappear amid the growing use of coding assistants. Last month, GitClear published an analysis of 211 million lines of code in its AI Copilot Code Q...

Now that we had a deployable app, I set up a staging server using my new favourite provider, Hetznerhttps://www.hetzner.com/ not a sponsor, lol, spun it up, and witnessed a “fully functional” skeleton of JuggleBee. Stage 1 of the migration plan was c...

JuggleBeehttp://www.jugglebee.com was born in 2015. It was Namibia's first online auction platform and is still one of the biggest today. I built it with Ruby on Rails 4.2 on Ruby 2.2. It sat there, rock-solid and stubbornly stable, only needing the ...

This article explores how to effectively use JavaScript's forEach method in combination with the ternary operator, enhancing your understanding of the underlying code while writing it more efficiently! !https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/...

Beneath every blazing-fast app, behind every seamless digital experience, lies a forbidden architecture—one that few dare to discuss. Two ancient techniques, whispered in server rooms and scribbled in the margins of database logs, hold the key: Shard...

Sometimes the most effective change you can make isn’t in the code at all—it’s in how you think about the code. It’s a shift in understanding, not syntax. This kind of change happens quietly: a name stays the same, no lines are added or deleted, but ...

Software normally fails when it becomes so complex that it can no longer provide the additional features needed while remaining error-free. Refactoring is used to improve the code design to make it easier to understand and extensible. If you believe ...