Before start to justify why you should practice refactoring, i’ll put two definitions where the first is the default and everybody know and the second is my own definition:

If you want to use redis as your cache store, i recommend you checkout the Redis Store, see the github repo:

If you like to use the compass, and want integrate it with Rails 3.1 asset pipeline are necessary to make some settings:

I began this week to do a small project where one of its features is to validate a given xml against an schema. In the ruby ecosystem we have several options for working with xml, and i chose nokogiri, where he met my needs very well.

If you began studying ruby and went looking for some gems, probably should have seen a method called “method_missing” and should probably not have understood anything (at least i didn’t understand the first time). So will a brief explanation of what it’s and how it can help in our implementation.

I participated in a project where it was necessary to connect to Getclicky API, so i decided to do a gem, and i’ll show you how it’s easy to use.

In Ruby has a couple of ways to combine the methods of two classes. Classes are collections of related methods and data members. Two classes can combine their methods using the include or extend statements. Both of these statements are specialized for a different purpose, the include add instance methods to your class, and extend add class methods. Look’s the example below:

The Singleton pattern is designed so that the object is instantiated only once during each execution. And to use it in Ruby could not have an easy and elegant way, just include the module Singleton: