Rubber Duck Dev Show Episode 37 | Working With Outside Teams

Hear two rubyists discuss how best to work with outside project teams:

10 Books Every Senior Engineer Should Read

This list contains a mixture of classic, timeless texts and a fair share of modern game-changing publications, aimed at senior engineers and devs. [more inside]

What’s wrong with Heroku Config Vars?

Lisa Crispin: Holistic Approach to Testing

🎧 A great interview with Lisa Crispin about adopting a holistic approach to testing and helping organizations adopt continuous integration. [more inside]

Glimmer DSL for SWT Video Tutorial 10 - Hello, Styled Text!

Desktop development is about 10 times simpler than web development. Learn it and you will become a better web developer as you transfer the simplicity of desktop development to the web! Glimmer DSL for SWT Video Tutorial 10 is out! It walks software engineers through Hello, Styled Text! [more inside]

Generating the Gemfile.next.lock

We recommend using the Dual Boot technique for upgrades. This requires us to generate a Gemfile.next.lock file that will be used to boot the app with the next version or Rails. In this article we’ll share 2 techniques to generate this file: the faster one and the safer one. [more inside]

Ruby on Rails Flash Messages With Hotwire

In this video, we’re going to take a look at Rails’ flash messages, how they work, and what changed since Hotwire became available.

Why Ruby has Symbols?

In my recent blog post I describe the difference between strings and symbols in Ruby. It starts with the usage difference and then digs into how interpreter makes related optimizations.

Handling SIGHUP error from Heroku

A video on handling SIGHUP error from Heroku. We also get to see how to use notify_at_exit feature of Honeybadger. Please note that this was an internal video which we are publishing as is.

DatoCMS with RubyOnRails

I published a new gem to integrate DatoCMS in Ruby On Rails and here is the tutorial

Label Maker with Ruby

Learn how to turn your tweets into physical printouts on a label maker via the Cups/PPD API. It’s a silly concept, but can have some great real world application with interfacing with printers. https://www.driftingruby.com/episodes/label-maker-with-ruby

Glimmer DSL for Tk Hello, Progressbar & Theme!

Glimmer DSL for Tk v0.0.56 and v0.0.57 bring a couple of new samples (Hello, Progressbar! sample and Hello, Theme! sample) in addition to upgrading to the latest version of the glimmer gem. [more inside]

Rubber Duck Dev Show Episode 36 | Redundant Infrastructure on the Cheap

Hear two rubyists discuss how to set up a redundant infrastructure for you application on the cheap:

Rails Credentials can be Confusing

Environment-specific but master override? Oh man.

Behavior-driven Development

BDD is a logical step forward in the evolution of the practice of software development. This article explains the concept and its origins.

Glimmer DSL for SWT Video Tutorial 9 - Hello, Canvas Shape Listeners!

Desktop development is about 10 times simpler than web development. Learn it and you will become a better web developer as you transfer the simplicity of desktop development to the web! Glimmer DSL for SWT Video Tutorial 9 is out! It walks software engineers through Hello, Canvas Shape Listeners! and explains the basics of the Canvas Shape DSL. [more inside]

Rails enum validation

How to test solidity smart contracts with ruby with RSpec and Etherium.rb

A small guide on how you could test your smart contracts in RSpec instead of using truffle [more inside]

5 Tips to Design Ruby on Rails Transactions the Right Way

Check out these 5 tips to ensure your transactions are readable and well-designed in your Ruby on Rails app. [more inside]

How to Use Import Maps

With the release of Rails 7, import maps are the default way of loading 3rd party Javascript libraries, which means you can remove Webpack and Node.js from your project.

The Testing Pyramid: How to Structure Your Test Suite

Explore different ways of organizing the test suite including testing pyramid, testing matrix and testing trophy.

How to use ActiveRecord in a library

Ever wanted to use ActiveRecord in a pure Ruby library/gem, not in a Rails app or Rails Engine? In this blog post I walk through how to accomplish this and some of the gotchas which I encountered along the way. Covers how to connect to the database, define models, “connect” the models to the database, and how to run a directory of migrations, all without Rails. Example source code is also available on GitHub.

Search rubygems.org via Raycast

Wanna search rubygems.org without opening a browser? I wrote a Raycast extension to search rubygems.org from within Raycast

Redis & Ruby

Been using Ruby and Redis for a long time, Redis best practices have been changing.

How to use CSS Variables with Rails

CSS custom properties (or CSS variables as they’re commonly called) are a great way to let users customize the look and feel of your Rails app. Check out the screencast to Learn How to use CSS variables with Rails