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Complex Ruby Transformations made simple with Dry::Transformer | Hanami Mastery #6
Hi, have you ever wondered how to easily make two API standards communicating together? I’ve released a new HanamiMastery episode related to data transformations in Ruby, I hope you’ll find it useful too! [more inside]
Glimmer DSL for SWT Hits 39k Downloads in Just Over 1 Year
What the title says! In other news, Glimmer 2 was released, including the new Shine data-binding syntax support, which was extracted from Glimmer DSL for SWT and shared with Glimmer DSL for Opal (sharing is caring eh!?). [more inside]
ActiveRecord Callback Chain: A Cool (and Weird) Edge Case
Today we will be talking about AR Callbacks and a recommendation of a “per use-case” strategy for validating incoming data to your Rails Apps. [more inside]
How to do Web Scraping with Ruby on Rails for a Static or Dynamic Website?
Web scraping with ruby on rails can be challenging but it can be done easily with the process listed out in this article. Here’s a guide explaining how to do that. [more inside]
Active Record Encryption in Rails 7
Rails 7 will be introducing a very cool new feature for ActiveRecord - application-level encryption. In this post, we will take a high-level look at how to use this functionality, discuss some cool things it can do, and acknowledge some of its limitations. [more inside]
Learn Ruby on Rails Best Practices With One Exercise
All you have for lunch every day is a big bowl of stale legacy spaghetti code. How can you become a Ruby on Rails expert if the code you read everyday stinks? 🦨 Change your coding diet today and build your expertise by doing this 10min exercise. [more inside]
A free tool to calculate Heroku database connections
Calculate and visualize your Heroku Postgres connections with the DB Connection Calculator. If you’ve encountered errors like ActiveRecord::ConnectionTimeoutError or PG::ConnectionBad on Heroku, this is for you.
[Screencast] Tracking Events with Ahoy
Analytics can provide great information about your users and the content that you’re producing. With using the Ahoy gem, we can gather powerful analytics without handing them over to third parties. https://www.driftingruby.com/episodes/tracking-events-with-ahoy
Glimmer DSL for SWT Hits 60 SAMPLES with Weather!
Glimmer DSL for SWT just added its 60th sample with the Weather app elaborate sample included in v4.20.0.4! Also, added Hello, Shell! in v4.20.0.3! Come get ‘em while they’re hot! [more inside]
Glimmer DSL for SWT Hello Composite, Layout, ToolBar, and CoolBar!
Glimmer DSL for SWT v4.20.0.1 and v4.20.0.2 bring the following Hello samples aboard: Hello, Composite! / Hello, Layout! / Hello, Tool Bar! / Hello, Cool Bar! [more inside]
QRCode Pix Ruby released!
qrcode_pix_ruby is a Ruby gem for Qrcode generation of Pix (Pagamento Instantâneo Brasileiro - Banco Central do Brasil). [more inside]
Glimmer DSL for SWT 4.20.0.0 Time To Shine!!!
No, you are not hallucinating!!! The uses of <=> and <= to denote bidirectional (two-way) and unidirectional (one-way) data-binding respectively are real code from the updated Hello, Computed! sample working in Glimmer DSL for SWT 4.20.0.0, thanks to the new Shine syntax for View/Model Attribute Mapping and Ruby’s ultra-malleable DSL syntax support. Also, AARCH64 experimental support has been added courtesy of the new SWT 4.20 and JRuby has been upped to v9.2.19.0 [more inside]
My thoughts on trying Hanami 2.0 in microservices architecture.
In this article, I tell about the thoughts hidden behind the process of decision-making, whether to switch to Hanami from Rails. [more inside]
Minimise impact of DDoS attack on Rails app
As it says on the tin, a short article that explain how to mitigate the possible impact of DDoS attack on your Rails app https://www.cookieshq.co.uk/posts/minimise-impact-of-ddos-attack-ruby-on-rails-app
Getting Started with Pry Debug in 5 minutes
When you’re banging your head against the wall trying to fix a bug, the last thing you want is having to stop and learn how to use the debugging tool. [more inside]
google-like avatars in your app
https://github.com/igorkasyanchuk/avatarro generates google-like avatars in your app. [more inside]