Without a doubt, Sidekiq is one of the most popular Ruby gems. Next to Shoryuken and Resque its main purpose is processing background jobs. Almost every Ruby application I have worked with had sidekiq listed in its Gemfile. In this article, I would like to share some insights that I have learned about over time Read more…

Using constants is idiomatic for Ruby. We use them to store something meaningful (a well-suited name is very important), connected with a class that holds it. Consequently, we make our code easier to reason about, avoid duplication and, very often, more performant.