Akshay Khot

I run an independent software studio/agency specializing in Ruby on Rails. This blog is my attempt to spread the joy of programming in Ruby and building web apps in Rails with the world.

Victoria, BC

184 Articles

Active Job: How Does It Work?

In this article, I explain the journey of a background job, from its creation to execution. We will learn how it’s configured and enqueued, and how an adapter invokes it. We will also see the different ways to configure a job.

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Up and Running with Minitest

I love minitest. Minitest is simple. There’re a few ways to write tests, and they are so intuitive. I learned it last year, when

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Ruby Shortcut to Call a Method with Each Array Item as Parameter

As a Ruby programmer, you probably know the &: shortcut to call a method on each item in an array. For example, this snippet will

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How to Manage Environment Variables in Rails

Now you might think it’s so easy to access them using the ENV hash. Why do we need a different way? Well, a very

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Useful Linux Commands

Learning the Linux command line, like becoming an accomplished pianist, is not something that we pick up in an afternoon. It takes years of practice.

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Running a Single Test with Spaces in Minitest

In Rails, if you want to run a specific test without the others in the file, you can pass the method’s name to the

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How to Convert a Ruby Object to Hash

Let’s say you have a Product object with properties @name = "Table" & @price = 10. What’s the best way in Rails to

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Useful Ruby Gems

Although Rails provides great defaults out-of-the-box, you can easily extend it with Ruby gems. Here are some gems that I find myself using every time

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How to Access Route Helpers from Rails Console and Models

This post shows a simple way to check the output of URL and path helpers directly from the Rails console. We will also see how to access these helpers in your models.

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