Modern rspec versions (as I’m writing this, the latest version is 3.5.4) have a lot of cool features that are not enabled by default, so as not to break backwards compatibility. What this means is that in practice, unless you turn them on, you’re missing out on a lot of goodies and cool features that could help you spot potential issues in your code and specs. Why You Should Regenerate Your spec_helper

Do you love SSH for the good it has done for mankind, but get annoyed by how long it takes to establish a connection over a high-latency connection? Perhaps you have a process that needs to make thousands of SSH connections, and you’d like a little extra speed from the whole thing. Either way, ControlMaster is your new best friend. SSH ControlMaster: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

In this article, I’m going to share eight of those items (and the rationale behind them) that we check on when we begin auditing a code base. My aim is to help provide you with a list of things to check on and consider cleaning up as a way to tidy up some possible technical debt and/or oversights.

Some useful websites for programmers.

When learning CS there are some useful sites you must know to get always informed in order to do your technologies eve and learn new things. Here is a non exhaustive list of some sites you should visit, this list will get updated as soon as I can get another link, but you can also contribute by adding those you know 😉