Learn two ways to avoid switching on nil in Rails apps, in this double feature from RubyTapas and Upcase
Episode #497: Deep Dup
Learn how to make deep copies of arbitrary Ruby object trees.
Episode #496: Deep Freeze
Freezing a Ruby object can leave you skating on thin ice. Learn how to render complex Ruby objects totally immutable.
Episode #495: Faker
Learn about a useful tool for generating realistic-but-fake data for examples and tests.
Episode #494: Special Variables Part 4: Speak English!
Now that you've learned how to obfuscate your code with Perl-style special variables, learn how to make it readable again!
BRUNCH #32
Tools for remote working, choosing a frontend framework, and optimizing validations.
Episode #493: Special Variables Part 3: Regex Matching
Learn about one final category of Ruby's Perl-style special variables, and some guidelines for using them.
BRUNCH #31
Condition variables, destroying software, the big idea of Lisp, and more.
Episode #492: Special Variables Part 2: I/O
Learn about Ruby's Perl-style I/O special variables, and why they exist.
