It’s About Time (Zones) by Elle Meredith

Don’t Use

• Time.now
• Date.today
• Date.today.to_time
• Time.parse("2015-07-04 17:05:37")
• Time.strptime(string, "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z")

Do Use

• Time.current
• 2.hours.ago
• Time.zone.today
• Date.current
• 1.day.from_now
• Time.zone.parse("2015-07-04 17:05:37")
• Time.strptime(string, "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z").in_time_zone

Falsehoods programmers believe about time

7 Patterns to Refactor Fat ActiveRecord Models by Sasha Razvina

Refactoring Fat Models with Patterns by Bryan Helmkamp

• Extract Value Objects
• Extract Service Objects
• Extract Form Objects
• Extract Query Objects
• Introduce View Objects
• Extract Policy Objects
• Extract Decorators

Active Job Style Guide

Better Specs