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Rails for the TypeScript Engineer

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Part 1: Everything Is an Object
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Blog Ruby Ruby on Rails
Ruby syntax through TypeScript eyes — implicit returns, truthiness gotchas, and why 0 is truthy
Part 2: Convention Over Configuration
·924 words·5 mins
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Blog Ruby Ruby on Rails
Rails MVC, ActiveRecord, and why the framework makes decisions so you don’t have to
Part 3: The Rails Way
·918 words·5 mins
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Blog Ruby Ruby on Rails
Service objects, Hotwire, ERB, and where Rails and Node.js disagree about how web apps should work
Part 4: Testing in a New Language
·966 words·5 mins
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Blog Ruby Ruby on Rails
RSpec vs Jest, FactoryBot vs fixtures, and Rails security that comes free
Part 5: The Switching Cost
·1106 words·6 mins
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Blog Ruby Ruby on Rails
What was harder than expected, what was easier, and what I’d tell myself before learning Rails