ruby
Ruby 3.2 adds new syntax for anonymous arguments: forward positional and keyword arguments with bare * and ** and unpack them inside the method, no more digging through kwargs hashes. A before-and-after example shows how much cleaner argument passing gets.
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Naive Bayes classification in plain Ruby: how prior and posterior probabilities decide the winning class, then a working spam filter that classifies email titles. Also where the algorithm shines: sentiment analysis, recommendations, and fraud detection.
cookies
Rails CookieOverflow strikes when a cookie exceeds 4096 bytes. How to inspect cookies in Chrome dev tools, read the session dump on the error page, and use the cookie_debugger gem to log exactly which session key is eating the space, even in production.
ActiveRecord callbacks bring tight coupling, slower transactions, and painful debugging. Why before_save and after_save hooks in Rails models cause trouble, and how replacing them with an explicit process class makes the same flow readable and easy to debug.
Google Drive trash can quietly eat the space you free up when rotating files like CCTV recordings. A short Google Apps Script fixes it: an emptyTrash function, the Drive API service, and a time-based trigger that wipes the trash every hour, fully automatic and free.
Apipie looks like an easy way to document a Rails API, but check its limits first: no advanced type constraints like exactly_one_of, only partial OpenAPI support, and weak handling of output examples. What to weigh before picking the gem for a larger application.