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]

BFS and DFS algorithms in Ruby

Check out my post about implementing depth-first search and breadth-first search in Ruby

Webpack ALL The Assets

With the release of Rails 6, Webpack was introduced as the default JavaScript bundler by using the Webpacker gem. We tend to think about Webpack only as a tool to handle JavaScript files, but it can be used to handle all kinds of asset files. This article shows how to create a Rails app that uses only Webpack to handle all the assets, including images, fonts, styles and videos. [more inside]

Open Source Thursdays Expert Session with Rafael França on Aug 5th

Did you always want to get started with contributing to Rails? It can be overwhelming, right? [more inside]

Deploying Rails to AWS Lambda

Lambda is an excellent option for deploying lower-traffic web services when you don’t want to maintain another server and you want easy access to all of AWS’s other services. In this article, Godwin Ekuma shows us step-by-step how to deploy our Rails apps to AWS Lambda.

Introducing JavaScript and TypeScript client for AnyCable

Vladimir Dementyev from Evil Martians introduces a fresh take on a client library for Rails Action Cable. Implemented in JavaScript and TypeScript, it is intended for the free and pro users of AnyCable, giving them a handful of new features, but is also 100% compatible with vanilla Rails for a more modern, maintainable, and robust client code.

What's new in Polyphony - July 2021 edition

Polyphony is a Ruby gem for creating highly concurrent Ruby apps. Here are the latest updates.

I've made a dependency graph for DRY-RB!

Do you wonder where to start learning DRY-RB? This may help you! [more inside]

Setup Factory Bot in Rails

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How to ignore Bullet in RSpec tests

The Bullet gem is an excellent tool for finding opportunities to improve how you grab data via ActiveRecord. On a recent project, we’ve been running Bullet in our test environment as well as development. It has helped us find some improvements to areas of the app we rarely hit when developing new features. [more inside]

Untangle your code with MORE than service objects! Meet dry-monads

Anyone knows how complex Rails controllers can become. In the new Hanami Mastery episode, I show how to solve it with Service Objects on Steroids. [more inside]

Spina CMS 2.1 – Hotwire ⚡️ Edition

Spina CMS has been rebuilt from scratch using Hotwire, ViewComponent, Tailwind and JSONB. Because of the new document db approach in PostgreSQL, complex pages load a lot faster. Check it out at spinacms.com.

Let's watch a Ruby tech talk together 📺🎉

Do you have hundreds of tech talks sitting on your “Watch Later” list on YouTube… Sounds more like a “Never Watch” list, right? 🙈 [more inside]

DTN (IQfeed) client

Hey folks, I just released a pet project of mine Will be very thankful for any feedback and ofc GitHub :star:

Rails 7 allows loading nested locales in the engine

Fullstaq Ruby now packages Ruby 3.0.2, 2.7.4 and 2.6.8

Fullstaq Ruby provides precompiled binaries for Ruby in DEB and RPM format. You can optionally opt-in for memory optimization patches such as Jemalloc and malloc_trim. It’s the easiest to install Ruby in production and to keep it auto-updated. [more inside]

Rails form : back to basics

I wrote a tutorial that explains forms from scratch, in a Rails environment. I like to go back to basics, because in everyday work we use (too) many abstractions.

Glimmer DSL for SWT System Tray

Glimmer DSL for SWT has shipped with explicit system tray support, greatly simplifying the addition of a tray item to an app. It also now supports multiple parallel animations on a canvas, and animation property data-binding. [more inside]