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Sometimes I ran across a GitHub merge request of a gem where it was not completely obvious in which version...

Cucumber up to version 2 had a neat feature called Step Argument Transforms which was dropped in favor of Cucumber...

This is a personal post-mortem analysis of a project that was mainly build to provide a REST API to...

Our old solution for cronjobs, the "craken" plugin, is no longer maintained and does not work on Rails 3.2+.

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Let's say you have a gem which has the following module: module SuperClient def self.foo 'Foo' end

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Using this gem I could get JSON generation from a large, nested Ruby hash down from 200ms to 2ms.