Posts Tagged “Rails”

Rails Dependent Associations

I often find that the dependent parameter gets forgotten on projects. This is easy to do if you're new to Rails. When dependent is not set, nothing terrible happens at first… but once you get further into a project you...

Rails ProTip: Stop generating empty files you're not gonna use!

I regularly work on projects where there are default pending specs and helpers/assets that are empty. This is bad for two reasons: firstly RSpec and the Asset pipeline still check/load these files which slows things down, and secondly they make...