Do more with rails console by configuring ~/.irbrc 🎉

How to use React components in Rails 6

Just published a new piece on building hybrid Reat/Rails apps. Hope you like it [more inside]

Deep-dive into Database transactions in RSpec

Huge Theme and Workflow Advances in Bridgetown 0.15 “Overlook”

Whew, a lot has happened since the last release of Bridgetown. The community has been growing on Twitter and in Discord, we’ve gotten new sponsors on GitHub, and a ton of work to move the ecosystem forward has been going on behind the scenes. It’s time to unveil some of those initiatives today with the release of Bridgetown 0.15 “Overlook”!

Web Scraping with Ruby

A pretty thorough overview on how to do web scraping with Ruby. The post covers working with HTTParty, Nokogiri and the Kimurai web scraping framework.

Top Web Development Frameworks in 2020

The top web app development frameworks enable building robust web applications. Here are the top web app development frameworks for succeeding with your web applications in 2020.

Embracing Perspectives with the Rails Router

A simple Rails routing convention that could have a huge impact on how you organize and discover code in your applications. [more inside]

Understanding Basic Ruby Data Types

Venturing into Ruby? Start with Ruby data types. Get simple information about the different data types in Ruby from this article. Once done, you’ll know how helpful Ruby on Rails data types are. [more inside]

Rails 6 multiple databases support in Rails Event Store

Rails 6 released in August 2019 has brought us several new features. One of the notable changes is support for multiple databases. All details have been described in Rails guides and I’ve read already several blog posts describing how to do it. But how to use this feature to allow Rails Event Store data to be stored in a separate database? Check my blog post where I document my experiments with it.

Delete_all will surprise you

A fun experience with delete_all method from ActiveRecord and the approach to debugging SQL queries in the test environment. [more inside]

Encapsulate each validation error as an Error object

Configure Travis CI for Ruby on Rails

In this tutorial I am going to show you how to configure Travis CI to run your Rails’ test suite and system tests everytime you push a new change to your repository.

Inkblot: Ruby interactions with e-paper displays

A Gem for running waveshare displays with the Raspberry pi in ruby, and some extras to help you get started with it. Read about it on my website or check out the code on github

Introducing EventStoreClient - a ruby implementation for Greg's Event Store

Check out how we’ve implemented Ruby client for Greg’s event store! [more inside]

Monolithic Ideas For AWS Lambda File Systems

Today I am excited to share the release of AWS Lambda File Systems. A simple, scalable, fully managed network file system leveraging Amazon’s Elastic File System (EFS) technology. And what better way to celebrate the accomplishments of our hard-working AWS friends than by building clever uses of their tools in ways they may not have intended… or outright feared 😱

Graphviz: Draw diagrams with code

SEO-Friendly URLs with Rails

I had a chance to work on a project that used friendly_id. The gem was mostly great, but there were a few situations when it didn’t work as expected and I spent hours fixing it. I’m not a fan of reinventing the wheel either, but for my latest project I tried to implement SEO-friendly URLs just with what Rails has to offer. It turned out really easy and with many advantages over the gem. [more inside]

Handle bad JSON requests to your Rails API

One of the main problem I faced while building JSON APIs using Ruby on Rails was around making sure that the API consistently returns JSON responses for all scenarios including when the request payload is not valid JSON. [more inside]

Rewriting a small rails & react application

In this post I will set up a rails application from scratch, with my personal flavor of gems and modifications. Then I’ll go through the process of adding the registration flow including configuring Amazon SES.

Live multiuser Video Chat for Rails in under 20 minutes

Using Vonage, we can build video chat into Rails that’s live, supports multiple users, recording, and can be easily modified to broadcasts (like webinars or Twitch). Check out the Live multiuser video chat in Rails screencast

football.csv - sportdb-importers Gem Update - Read League & Match Datasets

Hello, I’ve updated the sportdb-importers Gem that lets you read (import) league & match datasets in comma-separated values (CSV) format into any SQL database. What’s news? A new CSV flavor / schema lets you read in any or many leagues or seasons per datafile, for example, week by week or year by year. Enjoy the beautiful game with ruby. Happy data wrangling. Cheers. Prost.

Ruby on Rails - Discovering Amazon CloudFront

CloudFront provides better interface instead of just showing the XML error, this could be helpful to non-techie users using ruby on rails.

Ruby on Rails, from MVC to GraphQL

Allowing dots in Rails routes

Time to up your Code Review game