A little Active Storage cheat sheet

Have a look how to display, download and stream files with Active Storage.

Using Postgres' citext to clean up messy downcase code

You may want to use the “citext” Postgres type to clean up messy downcase code when looking up slugs/emails/etc in your Ruby/Rails app. In this decision, I quickly explain how this works!

Upgrading Ruby on Rails Insights and Strategies

For the past few months at Kiprosh, we’ve done versions upgrade of multiple mid to large scale Ruby on Rails applications. One of them was running Rails version 3.2.22. That’s where we found out that, we need to make a lot of changes in our codebase to run our application on version 4.0. Hence, we thought to write this blog post to share our insights and recommended strategies for upgrading such mid to large Rails applications.

Iterating over large tables in MySQL using ActiveRecord

. In a high volume analytics system, tables with millions of records are quite common and iterating over the full table or a subset of these tables becomes often necessary  — whether it’s to perform computations, run a migration, or create parallelized background jobs on the records. It becomes important to write efficient code for iterations because there is often an order of magnitude difference between a good and not-so-good approac

Ruby Quiz - Challenge #8 - Decipher Super "Sekretoooo" 240-Bit CryptoKitties Genome

Ruby Quiz - Challenge #8 - Base32 Alphabet - Convert the Super “Sekretoooo” 240-Bit CryptoKitties Genome to Kai Notation. Annipurrsary! Let’s celebrate one year of CryptoKitties - yes, more than one million cute little cartoon cats on the blockchain. Let’s convert the super “sekretoooo” kitty genome - that is, a 240-bit integer number where every 5-bit block is a gene - into the base32 (2^5=32) kai notation. Happy genome genetics slicing with ruby.

SOLID & Ruby in 5 short examples

In this article we’re going to explore the following topics:

Rails is great because "all the decisions are made for you", right?

Rails is great because “all the decisions are made for you”, right? But I wouldn’t be writing this if this were truly the case. ;-)

Passing current_user by default in Sidekiq

Give this blog a read if you need to access current_user in Sidekiq. Read more

Big on Heroku: Scaling Fountain without losing a drop

A one-stop guide on getting the most out of Heroku when scaling a successful Rails startup.

Building a DSL in Ruby - Part 2

We continue building our DSL in Ruby!

Modules in Ruby Part II

In this article, we’re going to explore the following topics:

How to store emoji characters with Ruby on Rails and Mysql

Ruby Toolbox Community Survey Results

In November I ran a community survey to learn what users of the Ruby Toolbox would like to see improved to help them in finding healthy open source ruby libraries more easily - The results are now published

Stealth 1.1 Chatbot Framework Released

With new features like reply variants, your chatbot can utilize a single codebase but still be deployed to multiple messaging platforms. The release also includes many other great features to make building chatbots a lot of fun.

A Weird and Wonderful Trip through Ruby’s Standard Library

I spent some time looking through Ruby’s standard library documentation, keeping my eyes peeled for things I didn’t recognize. I found some pretty weird and wonderful things, and I wanted to share some of my favourites:

How business transactions help decouple Rails controllers

Ruby on Rails enables us to develop features fast and focus on what matters the most. However, if we don’t pay enough attention to the structure of the code we may end up with a well-known problem: fat controllers. This blog post explains how to achieve a more decoupled codebase through a series of refactorings, resulting in code that is easier to maintain and reason about:

Ruby Conferences 'n' Camps Around the World in 2019 @ Planet Ruby Calendar

Ruby Conferences ‘n’ Camps Around the World in 2019 @ Planet Ruby Calendar. What’s Upcoming in 2019? Anything missing? Updates welcome.. Cheers. Prost.

How to Use State Machines in Ruby

What is a state machine? How do you build one in Ruby? Find out in this NEW article!

Build Instagram by Ruby on Rails (Part 1)

I’ll guide you step by step learning Ruby on Rails through building the Instagram application.

[Screencast] Creating a Simple Slack Bot

Slack is a great application to keep in contact with friends, coworkers and a community. With bots, its capabilities are endless. In this episode, learn how to create a Slack Bot to interact with. https://www.driftingruby.com/episodes/creating-a-simple-slack-bot

HTTPX 0.3.0: HTTP/2, DNS-over-HTTPS, Alt-Svc support, and a cheatsheet!

httpx is an HTTP client library designed for simplicity, efficiency and compatibility. It’s inspired by cURL, http.rb and python requests, and aims at being ruby’s de facto HTTP library. Read more

One Year CryptoKitties! Copycats Unchained Command Line Tool (& Core Library) Updated

To celebrate One Year CryptoKitties! I’ve updated the copycats command line tool (and core library) - CryptoKitties collectibles unchained - with the latest traits / cattributes and more. Free and open source (and all in ruby). Happy bits & bytes collecting w/ ruby.

[Talk] RubyConf - Reducing Enumerable

Video for the talk is live:

Using the Serverless framework with Ruby on Lambda

The new AWS Lambda support for Ruby is simply awesome. Check out my quick example of running Ruby code on Lambda via the Serverless framework, complete with info on how to get gems with compiled extensions to work.

Enhance your "belongs_to" to be two times faster

database_validations gem introduces a new db_belongs_to helper. It ensures consistency and provides better performance. Check out this article to get more details.