International Ruby Conferences Fall 2018

Every quarter, we publish an article about Ruby conferences worth visiting. This fall isn’t an exception:

Value based pagination in Ruby on Rails

Codemy.net V2 and is Rails still Relevant? - Lab Report [006]

We walk you through the new Codemy.net site and discuss the controversial topic of is Ruby on Rails still relevant in 2018?

Closures in Ruby: Blocks, Procs and Lambdas

In Ruby Magic we love to dive into the magic behind the things we use every day to understand how they work. In this edition, we’ll explore the differences between blocks, procs and lambdas.

Complicode! A needlessly complicated code generator!

Complicode (pun intended) it’s an implementation of the “algorithm” to generate control codes for invoices inside the Bolivian national tax service. Read more

Standardize Rails log output

Cast logs into uniform format for a centralized log management tool [MORE INSIDE]

Ruby and Emacs Tip: Advanced Pry Integration

Seamlessly integrate Pry into Emacs. Read more

Finding the right level of DRY for your RSpec test suite

From shared contexts to let blocks, we have lots of options for DRYing out our tests in the RSpec world. But how far do we take it? Read more

[Screencast] Rails Presenters

Separating view logic from bloated models can help maintain the model in the long run. https://www.driftingruby.com/episodes/rails-presenters

Rails Console Magic Tricks

Some tricks to improve your performance with Ruby console. The 2nd one is my preferred one. Read more

New additions to my favorite Ruby community resources

It’s been a while, and I have a few new favorite Ruby resources to share with you!

Cryptostatus - self-hosted cryptocurrencies portfolio tracker based on Rails/React

Symbol in Ruby

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

The 1-week-old ruby.social Mastodon instance already has 500 users

Looking for a nicer or more focused alternative to Twitter? Come join us on the Mastodon ruby.social instance. It got 500 users in a week of existence. Read more

StimulusJS with Rails Action Cable and a bit of Sidekiq

Short demo on how to setup actioncable using stimulusjs outside the rails asset pipeline/sprockets area:

Here's what happened at the EuRuKo 2018 conference,

The 35th Ruby conference took place in Vienna, Austria. I’ve summarized my highlights of the 2-day conference in two blog posts, including video recordings of the talks: https://blog.phusion.nl/2018/08/31/euruko-ruby-conference-day-1/ & https://blog.phusion.nl/2018/08/31/euruko-ruby-conference-day-2/

101: Advanced OOP structure in Ruby

In this blog post we will focus on solving a simple task: Read more

GraphQL pagination in Rails.

If you are trying to learn how to use GraphQL, there are some basic tips about implementing pagination: .

Statics: Base class and modules for static models.

Statics it’s a simple gem developed using mostly the dry-rb gems and it helps you have “static” models that get their data from YAML files. Read more

MiniI18n - New release with Localization support

I just released a new version (v0.5.0) of MiniI18n gem with localization support for dates, time and numbers. Read more

Private and protected in Ruby

As a Ruby method is — behind the scene — a message handler associated with a block of instructions that returns an object, the private and protected policies are strongly correlated with the Ruby message concept.. SEE MORE

Rails… Still?!?!

At the Amsterdam Ruby meetup, Chris Salzberg has us metaprogramming and PJ Hagerty explores a number of Ruby and Rails frameworks:

Build a collaborative playlist over WhatsApp with Rails, Twilio, and Spotify

The WhatsApp API is new, but you can play around with it using Twilio. As an example, here’s how to build a collaborative playlist using Rails and the Spotify and WhatsApp APIs.

active_storage + silent logs

if you using active storage you may already seen lot’s of the noise in logs from ActiveStorage about sending files. Read more

Ruby on Rails and Node.js compared

Node.js+Express.js or Ruby on Rails? A comparison of two of the most popular choices in the development community. Ruby on Rails and Node.js compared