Lucian Ghinda
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Lucian Ghinda

Lucian Ghinda

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I write here quick thoughts, ideas, tips, and learnings about programming, programmers, and building software. Most of my focus is on Ruby, Rails, Hotwire and everything about web applications.

We should adopt and use new Ruby features

Feb 3, 20236 min read

Emotion is motion and words shape our reality · A bit of (personal) history I learned Ruby, I think, around 2007, and back then, it was a language...

In defense of Ruby's short-hand syntax

Jan 18, 20234 min read

This is primarily a response to a Reddit comment but I have encountered this line of pushback against short-hand syntax multiple times. Thus I think...

Refactoring instance variables to local variables in Rails controllers

Jan 18, 20239 min read

An example of refactoring a controller to use local variable and shorthand hash syntax · I like to use as much as possible the new features in Ruby. In...

Code Design Inertia

Jan 12, 20231 min read

Code Design Inertia: The code that will be written in the future will follow the design of the code already written. Inertia is stronger inside a...

Write tests on all test levels

Nov 26, 20224 min read

When thinking about testing, consider the following points: You are not writing tests only for yourself but also for other developers who might join...

Alternative ways to freeze a string in Ruby

Oct 13, 20224 min read

If you want to freeze strings in Ruby there are at least two ways to do this: 1) Adding the magic comment at the beginning of the file #...