Scaling Your Ruby Service Objects with LightService

I wrote a quick guide to using the light service gem, which helps organize Ruby service objects. Check it out!

Ruby singleton_class example

In this post I tried to explain a use case of singleton_class.

Feedback wanted on new feature for Sail

Feedback on the following proposal would be very appreciated!

Modulator - tool for publishing Ruby methods as AWS lambdas behind gateway endpoints

Write regular Ruby code without dependencies and deploy it from generated CloudFormation template -

Announcing the release of Filtered gem.

The gem helps to create filters for Rails’ ActiveRecord in an old-fashion way. It makes your controller simpler and forms effortless. Check it out

Ruby 2.5 comprehensive changelog

Although the news are 1.5 years old, I believe it still could be interesting/useful: Ruby 2.5 changelog with references to docs, discussions, explanation of change reasons and code examples.

Ruby and GraphQL: what to use for your next project?

A lovely duet of two GraphQL gems with their week and strong sides:

An overview of Redis::Distributed – Redis client side partitioning in Ruby

Rails 6 allows spaces in postgres table names | BigBinary Blog

A simple guide to add 2FA to your user's authentication API in ruby on rails

We’ll learn by doing, to add 2FA security feature to your user’s authentication API in ruby on rails. Here’s the Article

GraphQL on Rails

This guide is about building a Rails/GraphQL/React/Apollo application from scratch. A first part of the series is dedicated to queries - a GraphQL way to fetch the data.

Rails 6 boot sequence

I Updated Rails. Now Everything's on Fire.

Once a Rails app has bundled at the next version of Rails, it is common to have a number of errors to handle before your test suite will run. In this post, I walk-through one of the common issues we see. Read here

Testing A Locally Running App Inside VirtualBox

Yesterday I had to fix one of occurs-only-in-one-browser issues – so I ran VirtualBox, typed the address to my app into some legacy IE – localhost:9292 – and… it didn’t work. In this short blogpost is how I got it all to work together:

Meet trip, a concurrent tracer built on set_trace_func & implemented in pure Ruby.

trip.rb is a concurrent tracer that can pause, resume and alter code while it is being traced. The tracer yields control between two threads, typically the main thread and a thread that Trip creates. Under the hood, Trip uses Thread#set_trace_func. It could be used to implement a debugger.

[Screencast] Inline Editing Records

Using Rails UJS, we create an interactive row editing solution without using any kind of Javascript frameworks. https://www.driftingruby.com/episodes/inline-editing-records

b - a hidden method from Ruby string class

Preventing minitest-focus during CI test runs

Minitest-focus is a great gem during development to only execute certain tests. However, it’s easy to miss and accidentally leave in while doing a CI test run, which could give false positives. Read here for ways to prevent during CI.

XDG 3.0.0 - New Gem Ownership

XDG is a great way to organize your program’s configuration, cache, and data. After ~7 years of inactivity the XDG gem is now under new stewardship. 🎉 With the 3.0.0 version, there is a new implementation and API that adheres to the XDG specification. If you need additional functionally beyond what the XDG specification provides then check out the companion Runcom gem. Enjoy!

Gem which helps initialize class instance with .call method.

.call(*args) => #new.call(*args) Read more

Graphs in Ruby

This gem allows to create simple directed and undirected graphs. Basic operations allows easily implement graph algorithms.

How to implement backpressure and load shedding?

Object Equality in Ruby

In Ruby, as any classes inherit directly (or not) from the Object class, then the object equality logic is implemented between the Kernel module and the BasicObject class. Read more

Ruby on Rails - Bounded contexts via interface objects

In this Article I’ll show you how to organize business classes in Ruby on Rails so your application can benefit from Bounded Contexts while still keep Rails conventions and best practices. Solution is also friendly for junior developers. Read more

[Interview] Rails Upgrades with Eileen Uchitelle

The Maintainable Software Podcast interviewed Eileen Uchitelle from Github about Rails upgrades last week. Here’s the transcription from the first half of that interview. Read more