The Honeybadger Developer Blog

Tutorials, product info, and good advice from the Honeybadger crew.

Lexical scoping and Ruby class variables

In this post we'll discuss some non-obvious behavior of class variables and show how it's all the fault of lexical scoping.

Slicing and dicing Ruby Enumerables

Have you ever needed to group items in an array, or lines in a file? In this post we'll discuss a few often-overlooked Enumerable methods that let you do just that.

Using splats to build up and tear apart arrays in Ruby

The humble splat operator (*) is one of those features of Ruby that just gets more interesting the more you look at it. In this post we'll talk about how you can construct and manipulate arrays with splats.

How Ruby Interprets and Runs Your Programs

In this post we'll follow the journey of a simple program as it's lexed, parsed and compiled into bytecode. We'll use the tools that Ruby gives us to spy on the interpreter every step of the way.

Understanding `self` in Ruby

A lot of problems faced by beginning Rubyists are caused by not understanding self. In this post we'll take a deep dive into self under conditions both common and uncommon.

Cool Ruby regex tricks

Ruby supports using regex in lots of interesting ways that go beyond the basic String#match method. In this post I cover a few of my favorites.

Using conditionals inside Ruby regular expressions

In this post, we'll dive into regex conditionals and discuss how to work around the limitations in Ruby's implementation of them

Benchmarking Ruby refinements

Are refinements slow? I wrote a few benchmarks to find out. The answer was surprising.

Understanding Ruby refinements and lexical scope

If you've never used Ruby's refinements, you might be surprised to learn that they're lexically scoped. We'll discuss what this means, and the implications for your code.

Multiple levels of subnavigation with Jekyll

In this post, we'll discuss how to separate an HTML document into logical sections based on heading tags. I'll all also show you a cool trick for rendering arbitrarily-deep subnavigation trees using Liquid templates.
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