Ruby: How to Run a Rack app in a Background Thread

Always set explicit timeouts

A short story about why is it always worth to set timeouts in your HTTP calls. [more inside]

Quarto Game + Canvas Shape DSL Tutorial

At a Christmas party I attended a couple of weeks ago, I discovered a classic board game called Quarto. In fact, the host of the party who’s worked for a major gaming company in the past asked me if I knew how to build it as a computer application. I discounted myself as a non-game-developer who only builds business applications, but then followed that by saying that if it is only a 2D game, it was simple to build. So, the challenge was on!!! [more inside]

Ruby Enumerator : what, why, how

A class that is instantiated by either defining Enumerator.new or by calling an instance method of an Enumerable object. Let’s see why and how to use it. [more inside]

The Adapter Pattern in Ruby (video)

The Adapter pattern allows you to make incompatible objects work well together by using an adapter object. [more inside]

Next Level Ruby on Rails Application Monitoring with AppSignal

Let’s run through adding custom instrumentation and monitoring to a Ruby on Rails application:

Using text editor, getting user input in Ruby

RVM-TUI 0.0.6

Given how practical and popular RVM (Ruby enVironment Manager) is, a while ago, I created a text-based user interface for it… [more inside]

Five things you did not know about Rails transactions

Authorization with JWT in ANY Ruby application

Authorizating your API applications can be trivial, if you have proper tolls to do it! Here I showcase how authorization with JWT can be done effortless in any ruby application by using Hanami 2.0 as an example and the jay_doubleu_tee gem. [more inside]

Deploying Static Sites

Github Pages and Gitlab Pages are both great places to quickly and easily push up static sites directly from your code repository. https://www.driftingruby.com/episodes/deploying-static-sites

How to create a bunch of Rails apps

Beginner-friendly, short, but hopefully useful tutorial. We use this small script every day, each time we want to try a new gem or isolate a bug. [more inside]

Rubysmith 1.0.0 - A command line tool for building Ruby projects

Happy to announce the release of Rubysmith 1.0.0 which provides a command line tool for building new Ruby projects quickly. Even better, it’s built on Ruby 3.1.0 and you get a ton of tooling often needed when crafting professional Ruby projects beyond the basic hobby setup. Everything is fully customizable with support for local or global settings too. You only need to type gem install rubysmith && rubysmith --build my_new_project to get started. 🎉

Las Dos Fridas (Anno 2022) And More - New Pop Art Image Helpers

Hello, In the ongoing pixel art programming series - yes, in ruby - I have put together some pop art image helpers inspired by Andy Warhol classics such as Double Elvis (Anno 1963), Thirty Is Better Than One (Anno 1963), Two Hundred Is Better Than One (Anno 1963) and some more. Yes, you can - turn your pixel art into modern pop art classics / originals. See the Double Frida (Anno 2022), Triple Frida (Anno 2022), Forty-Two Fridas Is Better Than One (Anno 2022) and some more samples to get your started. Happy New Year 2022! Happy Pixel Programming with Ruby.

Variables and strings in Ruby

Glimmer DSL for LibUI Non-Native Custom Controls

One of Glimmer DSL for LibUI’s greatest assets is that it renders native GUIs on every platform. That said, there might be cases where there is a need for non-native GUI controls like needing to render very large GUI controls for people with vision disabilities and the elderly or needing to build applications with brand new visual concepts like traffic control management apps and diagramming tools. Thankfully, the majority of native GUI toolkits offer non-native control support too, and Glimmer DSL for LibUI is no exception! [more inside]

Black candy 2.0 – Music streaming server built with Rails and Hotwire

Mixins are inheritance

An attempt to clear up a common misunderstanding about mixins. [more inside]

HexaPDF 0.20.0 featuring digital signature support

Getting started with Ruby and doing some math

ENV var do's and don'ts

Tame your ENV woes with 3 short lessons. [more inside]

3 Reasons Ruby On Rails Is the Best Way to Start Learning Web Development In 2022

With so many new languages popping up everywhere, it’s hard to decide which one to pick up or if Ruby on Rails is still a good choice in 2022. [more inside]

Truemail 2.6.0 supports Ruby 3.1 🚀

Latest release brings support for new Ruby 3.1. So you can use this end to end email validation solution on Ruby 2.5.x - 3.1.x versions.

Ruby Next 0.14.0: Ruby 3.1 support and more

This release brings Ruby 3.1 features to everyone and also ships with a new (hopefully) feature from the future release: instance/class/global variables binding support in pattern matching. What is it? That brings back the right-hand assignment like this: [more inside]

Rails adds the 'authenticate_by' method when using 'has_secure_password'

Rails add the ‘authenticate_by’ method that helps mitigate timing-based enumeration attacks. [more inside]