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rspec-benchmark adds objects and memory expectation
The latest rspec-benchmark adds a flexible expectation for testing objects and memory usage. It also adds the ability to configure global options such as the number of samples for perform_under and computational complexity matchers. Happy safe hacking!
Use Event emitter in Ruby
Just an article about using Event emitter and how to implement it. Read more
‘Cody the game’… A story of the special game for Ruby programmers
One day 3 years ago in the Codest team we prepared a great Cody game for Ruby programmers. In today’s article, I would like to describe what the work on this project looked like and above all show you the code of the project, which from now on is publicly available on our github. Read more:
Programming Bits, Bytes 'n' Blocks (in Ruby) Step-by-Step Book / Guide
Hello, I’ve started a new (free online) book(let) titled “Programming Bits, Bytes ‘n’ Blocks (in Ruby) Step-by-Step Book / Guide”. Let’s start with the three types of strings, that is, bytes, (string) buffers, and (frozen) strings, … Ruby Trivia Question: What’s the difference between 1) String.new, 2) String.new(""), and 3) "" ?. Happy bits & bytes slicing & dicing with ruby.
Introduction to Rails patterns - free book
I created a free book for you, it’s called “Introduction to Rails patterns” and it covers over 50 pages of useful refactoring tips. You can get it here
[Screencast] Interview with Frank Rietta about Security
In this interview, Frank Rietta, a security expert in web applications, talks about various recommendations for securing a Ruby on Rails application. Many areas are explored from code, staff, servers and infrastructure. https://www.driftingruby.com/episodes/interview-with-frank-rietta
How to learn Ruby on Rails effectively
I wrote an article about my tips for people wanting to squeeze as much as possible from the time to learn web development. Read more
Screencast - Sublime Text Mouse-Free Development Advanced Productivity Tips
Sublime Text is my editor of choice for developing Ruby on Rails and JavaScript web apps. In this screencast, I present a couple of more advanced productivity tips and configs that let you minimize the usage of mouse during development. Read more
Validate and Fix Ruby on Rails ActiveRecord PostgreSQL Data Integrity
Most Ruby developers work with Rails and Active Record for PostgreSQL database interactions. It provides a ton of magic and is simple to start with. Data integrity problems start creeping up once the code base and database structure gets older. In this blog post, I will describe a couple of techniques for ensuring data integrity and validation in Ruby on Rails web apps. Read more
Assigning methods to objects in Ruby
A pair posts talking about (the fairly often blogged about) Singleton Classes, without actually starting with Singleton Classes. Read more
Secure Configs with AWS SSM Parameter Store and Rails on Lambda
A cloud-native approach to Rails secrets management using AWS Lambda.
Image Processing with Libvips, AWS Lambda, & Rails
Just released an simple way to use popular gems like ruby-vips or image_processing with AWS Lambda layers and Rails. https://github.com/customink/ruby-vips-lambda and https://github.com/customink/lamby
Processing text files in Ruby simultaneously
This post analyzes different approaches for processing multiple files simultaneously with Ruby.
Parsing a DSL in Ruby in less than 30 LoC
In this article we’re going to see how to parse and serialize a DSL in less than 30 lines of codes. Read more
Dockerize the multi-services application for local development
The handy local development containerization guide for getting the services written in Ruby, Node.js, and Golang work together locally with docker networks.
Ruby gem information, stats and usage for your terminal
whatthegem is a small utility to answer some questions about Ruby gems you work with or planning to work with. It tries to answer—right in your terminal—questions like the following: Colleague added gemname to our Gemfile, what is it? How outdated is my favorite gemname I am using locally, what’s changed since then? What’s that benchmarking gemname’s synopsis was, again? There is gemname advised on the internetz for my problem, is it still maintained? Is it widely used?
Git Cop 3.4.0 - Netlify Support
In case you are using Netlify as your build and deploy service for static web sites, wanted to let you know Git Cop now supports Netlify too. Everything happens automatically so you can ensure your Git commits are of high quality. See the README for details. Enjoy!