Rubber Duck Dev Show | It's All About the Tests!

I just started a new weekly show called the Rubber Duck Dev Show with my co-host Chris. We will be covering all aspects of software development. Our first episode talks about testing!

Glimmer Battleship

Glimmer DSL for SWT 4.20.13.15 shipped with a sample implementation of the classic board game: Battleship! As usual, it has been built in record time, thanks to Ruby (JRuby) and the ultra-compact Glimmer GUI DSL. [more inside]

Pixel Art (Punk) Quick Starter Kit - Generate Algorithmically Your Own Collection

Hello, I have put together a ready-to-fork quick starter template that lets you generate algorithmically your own curated (or randomized) collection in three steps. The sample collection №1 are twenty-five dodge pixel art punks. Find out more @ /punks.starter

Testing abstract Rails controllers

I recently published a gem that lets you define anonymous controllers in your tests. It’s similar to RSpec’s anonymous controller specs, but for Minitest. https://zachahn.com/posts/1628492291 [more inside]

[Fix] Rails server is already running

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Five Turbo Lessons I Learned the Hard Way

I’ve been keeping some notes of the stuff that wasn’t obvious to me as I started using Turbo, and I thought they might be helpful for other folks. [more inside]

Using Hotwire with Rails for a SPA like experience

Let’s create a SPA-like navigation using Turbo Frames, and add use Stimulus to add some polish, such as loading states and keeping track of the selected item. [more inside]

Glimmer Connect 4

Glimmer DSL for SWT 4.20.13.14 shipped with a Connect 4 elaborate sample. It is implemented as a 2-player game that is very similar to Tic Tac Toe in implementation except that it relies on a hybrid canvas widget/shape approach to lay out the slots. [more inside]

Pixel Art Programming - Make Your Own Dodge Shiba Inu Punks (32x32) - Much Wow

Hello, I have put together a new (free) punk pixel art series that includes four shiba inu variants - classic, dark, alien and zombie - and some first attributes such as beanie, headband, cap, knitted cap, 3d glasses and more. Let’s generate a classic shiba inu dodge punk (32x32) with 3d glasses from scratch using the pixelart gem.

Mastering Rails time operations

Rails ActiveSupport time methods are slow. [MORE INSIDE]

Building a Documentation Workflow in Rails

Good docs make happy customers. But documentation is HARD. You have to figure out what’s important and write it up in a way that’s tailored to your audiences and consistent across the site. Now you need to set up a website, publish the docs and maintain them as your product changes. Fortunately, we have seasoned technical writer Kate Bartolo here to walk us through the whole process.

Glimmer Parking Sample

Glimmer DSL for SWT 4.20.13.13 added a new Parking elaborate sample that acts as a building’s parking booking system at its entrance. [more inside]

Rails 7 allows setting cache expiry, as an absolute timestamp

Rails caching has always had an expires_in method, which allows us to set cache expiry in relative time. [more inside]

Benry-recorder gem records method calls

Benry-recorder gem 1.0.0 released, a tiny utility to record method calls. It can also define fake methods and create create fake object.

Using ActiveRecord's #update_counters to Prevent Race Conditions

Race conditions are arguably the most insidious kind of bug; they’re intermittent, subtle, and most likely to occur in production. ActiveRecord’s update_counter provides us with a convenient way to avoid race conditions when incrementing or decrementing values in the database. In this article, Jonathan Miles shows us how to use it, how it’s implemented, and other approaches to avoiding race conditions.

Ruby 3.1 adds try_convert method to Integer class for implicit conversions

A complete guide to testing routes with RSpec

There are a few reasons why you might want to test the routes of your application, we go into those and how to test the most common routing patterns. [more inside]

Powerful Emacs Snippets

In this post, I documented the process of customizing one of my Ruby snippets to have some code expanded conditionally. I used Emacs, but the general idea may apply to snippet packages of other editors. [more inside]

Analyzing Heroku logs in real time

How an open source tool helps you extract fields and perform aggregations on your Heroku logs. All in real-time, with beautiful, human-readable output.

Conway's Game of Life Glimmer Sample

Glimmer DSL for SWT 4.20.13.11 just shipped with an implementation of Conway’s Game of Life. A simpler version was blogged about many years ago, but it has been enhanced to be canvas-based instead of button-based. [more inside]

Bullying / Censorship on r/ruby - A Welcoming Programming Community?

Hello, some ruby drama for your enjoyment. Bullying / censorship on r/ruby - A welcoming Programming Community? - The sad founder story why r/planetruby started.

[Screencast] Hotwire Turbo Replacing Rails UJS

In this episode, we look at some common functionality that we got with Rails UJS and what it looks like to reimplement these with Hotwire’s Turbo and StimulusJS. https://www.driftingruby.com/episodes/hotwire-turbo-replacing-rails-ujs

Live Stream Logs to Browser with Rails

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Deprecating code in a Rails application

I just shared a quick post on how to add deprecation warnings to a Rails app, and why you might want to, on Everyday Rails. Hope you find it useful!

Glimmer Klondike Solitaire + Canvas Shape Drag & Drop

Glimmer DSL for SWT 4.20.13.x added direct support for Canvas Shape Drag & Drop, which automates drag and drop operations for shapes within a canvas and is used to build the new Klondike Solitaire elaborate sample. [more inside]