How to Free Disk Space on MacBook used for Development

Installing or updating an app (ahem, ahem XCode…) on macOS is sometimes surprisingly difficult because of missing disk space. In this blog post, I’ll describe various ways to quickly and safely clean vast amounts of storage on a Mac Book used for web development. [more inside]

Day 3 - universum @ Ruby Blockchain Week 2021 - 7 Days of Ruby (Crypto) Gems

Hello, let’s welcome the third write-up in the Ruby Blockchain Week 2021: Day 3 - universum Gem - Operate the Ponzi Governmental - Real World Case Study - Last Creditor (Before Collapse) Wins the Jackpot!. Cheers. Prost

Diving into Hotwire

In this episode, we look at the installation scripts of Hotwire and get a better understanding of what they’re doing in order to integrate it into our applications more efficiently. https://www.driftingruby.com/episodes/diving-into-hotwire

Day 2 - blockchain-lite @ Ruby Blockchain Week 2021 - 7 Days of Ruby (Crypto) Gems

Hello, let’s welcome the second write-up in the Ruby Blockchain Week 2021: Day 2 - blockchain-lite Gem - Build Your Own Blockchains with Crypto Hashes. Revolutionize the World one Block at a Time!. Cheers. Prost

Setup CircleCI 2.0 with Rails

Day 1 - compute_unit @ Ruby Blockchain Week 2021 - 7 Days of Ruby (Crypto) Gems

Hello, let’s thank Corey Osman for the first write-up in the Ruby Blockchain Week 2021: Day 1 - compute_unit Gem - Collect Real Time Metrics ‘n’ Manage Compute Units (GPU, CPU, and ASICs) for Crypto Mining Rigs. Cheers. Prost

Ruby Graceful Application Shutdown with SignalException and SIGTERM

5+ Free Ruby Crypto (Blockchain) Programming Books @ Best of Crypto Books

Hello, hint: would love to see a write-up about any gem (e.g. kittyverse, blockchain-lite, universum, ed25519, etc.) from the Ruby Blockchain Programming books in the Best of Crypto Books collection. Join us in the new year in 2021 and claim a free day in the upcoming Ruby Blockchain Week 2021, January 3rd to January 9th - 7 Days of Ruby (Crypto) Gems. Why not highlight a blockchain / cryptos gem with your write-up in the ruby universe? Yes, you can! Cheers. Prosit 2021!

Ruby Conferences & Camps in 2021 - What’s Upcoming? - New Page @ Planet Ruby

Hello, To celebrate the new year I added a new Ruby Conferences & Camps in 2021 - What’s Upcoming? page @ Planet Ruby. Updates welcome. See the open data conferences2021.yml datafile. Happy new year! Prosit 2021!

How to use Ruby Case Statements with === / Higher Order Lambdas / Pattern Matching

In this blog post, I will go over how to use the Ruby case statement with Class implicit is_a? comparisons via === , higher order lambdas, and the new Ruby 3 pattern matching. I just had to refactor some code in my new project YASL (Yet Another Serialization Library), which was originally in this form… [more inside]

Ruby Cryptography - A collection of Ruby cryptography projects

Hello, hint: would love to see a write-up about any gem in the Ruby Crypto(graphy) collection. Join us in the new year in 2021 and claim a free day in the upcoming Ruby Blockchain Week 2021, January 3rd to January 9th - 7 Days of Ruby (Crypto) Gems. Why not highlight a blockchain / cryptos gem with your write-up in the ruby universe? Yes, you can! Cheers. Prost.

HexaPDF 0.14.0 - Interactive Forms Improvements

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10 best Ruby on Rails Gems for Web Development

Ruby on Rails gems enables swift and rapid web app development. Here are the top 10 best Rubygems that simplify the process and lead to better web applications. [more inside]

Yet Another Serialization Library

Announcing YASL: Yet Another Serialization Library [more inside]

Making GitHub Pages Work With Jekyll 4+ and Any Theme and Plugin

If you use the github-pages gem, you’re limited to Jekyll 3.9.0 and a limited set of themes and plugins, but with GitHub Actions, you can use the latest and greatest, and any theme or plugin you want. This tutorial shows you how step by step. [more inside]

Ruby Blockchain Week 2021, January 3rd to 9th - 7 Days of Crypto Gems Upcoming

Hello, as a follow-up to the Ruby Advent Calendar - join us in the new year in 2021 and claim a free day in the upcoming Ruby Blockchain Week 2021, January 3rd to January 9th - 7 Days of Ruby (Crypto) Gems. Why not highlight a blockchain / cryptos gem with your write-up in the ruby universe? Yes, you can! All welcome from no coiners to bitcon austrian school of economics “I HODL! You HODL! We HODL! Number Go UP!” maximalists to universum is the new ethereum world computer blockchainers. Cheers. Prost.

Rails 6.1 allows default_scope to be run on all queries

Russian Doll Caching - Building the HOTWire HNPWA #4

What if we can increase page load the speed by not duplicating work in the server rendering process? Russian Doll Caching describes layers of caching. Start from the smallest element, and then wrap it in bigger and bigger layers of caching, punching through to invalidate the cache with model updates.

Necromancer v0.7

The latest necromancer adds the ability to transform strings into hash of string, integer, float or boolean values. It also improves string into range conversion to work with decimals and spaces. Enjoy!

Speed up bundle installs

Here is a quick tip that might speed up your bundle installs. By using bundle config set jobs $(nproc) you can tell bundler to use all of your processors when installing gems in parallel. This should be the default behaviour according to my reading of the source code, but it isn’t. [more inside]

txtar gem - a Ruby implementation of txtar Go package

I found txtar package while working on my Go projects and liked the idea. Txtar archives helped me to package test fixtures in a clean and a human-friendly way. [more inside]

All Ruby Books is Back! New Home @ Planet Ruby - Updates Welcome

Hello, The All Ruby Books page / collection was started by Florent Guilleux in 2016 - Thanks! Merci! - and is now back at its new home @ Planet Ruby. Updates welcome. Cheers. Prost.

Private Is For Humans

A friend told me about a job interview from years ago where he received feedback that he had used private incorrectly. Let’s look at why it’s not “incorrect” to place constants under private.

Rails: Following and Notifications

A month or so ago we released following and email notifications for Speaker Deck. I thought I’d share how we whipped this together and why we did it the way we did. The end result is a stable notification system that gets the job done and will be easy to grow as Speaker Deck continues to grow. [more inside]

Union Types and Sorbet

This post explains what union types are and how they can be useful when using Ruby with Sorbet. [more inside]