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Articles by Oli Peate

  1. Tips for Using FactoryBot Without an ORM

    Exploring how to use FactoryBot effectively with models backed by plain Ruby objects.

    Oli Peate
    April 28, 2022
    • Factory Girl
    • Factory Bot
    • Ruby
    • Rails
    • Web
  2. Writing Less Error-Prone Code

    How to optimize for a living codebase, where a line of code will be repeatedly read, adapted and copied.

    Oli Peate
    June 8, 2018
    • Code
    • Good Code
  3. Graceful Switching of Worker Processes

    How to avoid lost work from your job queues and worker processes.

    Oli Peate
    November 28, 2017
    • Web
    • Heroku
    • Ruby
  4. Lean & Maintainable Reports with Heroku Dataclips

    Write testable reports in SQL that don’t erode over time.

    Oli Peate
    August 21, 2017
    • Data
    • Heroku
    • Rails
    • Web
  5. Slicing up Rails Application.js for Faster Load Times

    How to profile page load performance in Chrome and break out modular JavaScript assets.

    Oli Peate
    February 27, 2017
    • Performance
    • Rails

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