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Refactoring Rigid Code Structures in Ruby

Improving Maintainability and Extensibility

“Writing maintainable code is a journey, not a destination.” When working with Ruby applications, you may encounter rigid code structures that make your application harder to maintain and exte...

Posted by Theo Cha on November 26, 2024

Dependency Injection

Nestjs

“Dependency injection In software engineering, dependency injection is a programming technique in which an object or function receives other objects or functions that it requires, as opposed to ...

Posted by Theo Cha on March 22, 2024

Race Condition

Ruby on Rails

“Race condition A race condition or race hazard is the condition of an electronics, software, or other system where the system’s substantive behavior is dependent on the sequence or timing of ot...

Posted by Theo Cha on March 20, 2024

Ruby - Blocks

Ruby on Rails

“Blocks” What are blocks? Blocks are enclosed in a do / end statement or between brackets {}, and they can have multiple arguments. The argument names are defined between two pipe character...

Posted by Theo Cha on June 13, 2023

Manage package.json

Javascript

What is package.json package.json is a file that manages information about the current project and the dependencies of modules installed through the package manager (npm, yarn). It is usually loca...

Posted by Theo Cha on November 4, 2022

Duck typing

Design pattern

Duck typing “If it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, then it must be a duck” What? Duck typing is a type of dynamic typing, and a set of variables and methods of an object determi...

Posted by Theo Cha on November 3, 2022

Exception handling

Ruby on Rails

Why exception handling? Even if software engineers write codes perfectly, there are usually unexpected cases that they can not fully cover in many edge cases. we often say never trust users. we...

Posted by Theo Cha on October 24, 2022

Why type assertion is bad in Typescript?

Typescript

Overview One of TypeScript’s primary design principles is that “Statically identify constructs that are likely to be errors.” While TypeScript provides type safety, it also gives us the abili...

Posted by Theo Cha on September 29, 2022

How to work with Javascript Clipboard API

Javascript

Overview Clipboard API I have got a feature request that users can copy a web URL address by clicking a button. this way, users simply can copy and paste any given text. How? 1. document.exe...

Posted by Theo Cha on August 31, 2022

Class eval vs Instance eval in Ruby Meta programming

Ruby on Rails

Overview Class eval and Instance eval sometimes confuse me so I want to make an article to understand them better. The confusing part was their naming. they create exactly opposite things to what ...

Posted by Theo Cha on August 22, 2022

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