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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? 𦨠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 youâve 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 youâre 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 âem while theyâre 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 Rubyâs 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 youâre 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]
Security vulnerabilities â how to find and fix them
https://datarockets.com/blog/code/sql-injection-security-vulnerability/ This article is about security vulnerabilities that can be found in many projects. Ignoring them can have terrible consequences. Hopefully, they are easy to fix. Here I described how I found a vulnerability, showed how it could be used for data extracting from the database, and fixed it with just one line of code.
Set Up A Docker Container To Test Your Rails App
Code is never self-contained. It runs in an environment. Docker lets you define that environment in a simple and portable way. Thatâs why pretty much every automated testing and deployment service works with docker containers. You give them a container, and done! But how do you set up a container to use for testing your Rails app? In this article, Milap Neupane will show you. https://www.honeybadger.io/blog/testing-rails-with-docker/
QRCode Pix Ruby released!
Version 0.3.3 was released of gem qrcode_pix_ruby! qrcode_pix_ruby is a Ruby gem for Qrcode generation of Pix (Pagamento Instantâneo Brasileiro - Banco Central do Brasil). [more inside]