Category: Tools

Introductions and tips for various useful development tools & utilities.

Episode #392: Editor Macro

Today we go on a brief tangent to talk about an important and under-used code-editing skill.

Today we'll follow up on episode #372, and introduce some more object pretty-printing capabilities from the awesome_print gem.

Today we look at a powerful way to think through programming problems.

Today we take a lightning tour of a power tool for inspecting Ruby objects.

Today, a story about how a baby helped me avoid unnecessary code.

Today we explore some advanced ways to discover where tasks are defined in Rake.

Today's dish features a Rubygem that takes the tedium and guesswork out of performance benchmarking.

Today we'll learn how to answer our optimization questions with hard data.

Today's dish is about a little tool with an important job.

Today's dish is about a fun-but-useful easter egg in the Ruby standard library.

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