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title: "Blogs by Ratnadeep Deshmane"
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# Blogs by Ratnadeep Deshmane

Read BigBinary blog posts by Ratnadeep Deshmane.

## Posts

### Ruby 2.4 now has Dir.empty? and File.empty? methods

[Ruby 2.4 now has Dir.empty? and File.empty? methods](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/dir-emtpy-included-in-ruby-2-4)

- Author: Ratnadeep Deshmane
- Published: February 28, 2017
- Categories: Ruby 2.4, Ruby

No more platform specific code to check empty directories

### Support for left outer join in Rails 5

[Support for left outer join in Rails 5](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/support-for-left-outer-joins-in-rails-5)

- Author: Ratnadeep Deshmane
- Published: March 24, 2016
- Categories: Rails 5, Rails

No need of writing SQL in your code every time there is need to do left outer
join

### Rails 5 improves rendering partial from cache

[Rails 5 improves rendering partial from cache](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/rails-5-makes-partial-redering-from-cache-substantially-faster)

- Author: Ratnadeep Deshmane
- Published: March 9, 2016
- Categories: Rails 5, Rails

With the inclusion of multi_fetch_fragments gem in Rails core, Rails 5 improves
page load speeds substantially.

## Links

- [Human page](https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/authors/rtdp)