Exceptional Creatures: SyntaxError!

Ruby’s SyntaxError is raised when encountering Ruby code with an invalid syntax. Meet SyntaxError at Exceptional Creatures

Fat Models, Skinny Jobs

A nod to the tried and true approach from Jamis back in 2006, we keep our Jobs Skinny. And often I just delete the Jobs altogether:

Ruby 2.6 adds Enumerable#filter as an alias of Enumerable#select

Validators for Interactors

How to leverage ActiveModel::Validations to provide easy validations for your Interactors.

Find nearby locations in Rails with Oracle 50x faster

By utilizing spatial index, we can largely reduce the table rows scanned while finding nearby locations by given city’s latitude/longitude. See how SQL query is speed up by 50x.

active_storage + validations

this gem is to add validations in Rails models without custom validations. Read more

Lets keep our ‘Promise’ in Ruby

Though Ruby world is not new to ‘async’, there are many famous libraries in Ruby which are event-driven like eventmachine and celluloid but ‘async’ is not as main stream in Ruby as it is in other communities like Node.js is quite popular in JavaScript world and RxJava is new hot topic in Android eco system.

Connecting to the Apple Music API from a Ruby (on Rails) application

I explain how I connect to the Apple Music API with Ruby and the JWT gem

Running DAG-based workflows using multiple processes, in Ruby

The Jongleur gem is a process scheduler and manager. It allows users to declare a number of executable tasks as Ruby classes, define precedence between those tasks and run each task as a separate process. Read more

exists? and blank? under the hood

Should I use exists? or blank? To answer this question we will unpack ActiveRecord and put exists? and blank? methods under the scope. Read more

Resolving Rails schema.rb conflicts properly

Schema.rb conflicts can often confuse us. A couple of strategies for handling them, and some general migration tips – Resolving Schema.rb Conflicts Properly

eCommerce Companies Using Rails

What eCommerce companies use Ruby on Rails? We put together a list including Glossier, Inc., BARK, Greetabl, and more.

if you using spring+rspec this is for your

if you want to re-run specs you need to add “bin/” before “rspec” command. Read more

Is Rails still relevant in 2018 ?

Few days ago I’ve received email where I was asked for an advice from a web developer who was considering switching from Ruby to something else. I was asked in the email: Read more

The autoload method in Ruby

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

Rails Console Magic Tricks

Seven techniques to improve a developer’s experience during a Rails Console session.

Testing APIs in Ruby: An overview

A couple of different methods to test APIs with RSpec. Describes WebMock, VCR, and building a custom fake server.

Discover Rails: Active Record

This article is about how to make your own ActiveRecord gem. Follow the article, I will introduce how to make this gem step by step. From building the gem to testing the feature of rspec. Hope you are interesting in this topic!

Best image uploader for Rails — Revisited

Three years ago I wrote about how to choose the right uploader gem for your project. Since the time the original article has been published, all mentioned libraries got updated, one got deprecated, and two new libraries have appeared. I feel it’s time to revisit this topic.

Rails on Docker: Using an Entrypoint File in your Containers

A quick tutorial post describing how to use an entrypoint file to avoid “...server already running. Check tmp/pids/server.pid.” (and other issues) when developing and scaling Rails apps in Docker containers. https://www.chrisblunt.com/rails-on-docker-using-an-entrypoint-file-containers/

Doorkeeper 5.0.0 released

Doorkeeper, the OAuth 2 / OpenID provider for Ruby on Rails and Grape applications, is released under 5.0.0 major version with a bunch of new features and bugfixes: API mode, PKCE flow, Public/Private clients, request hooks, Rake tasks for tokens management, improved configuration options and more.

Protecting a Rails App with Passenger and Nginx

Explaining the complete process of password protecting your website with Passenger and Nginx @ Protecting a Rails App with Passenger and Nginx

Replr: A single line REPL for your favorite languages & libraries.

Built on top of Docker, Replr is an easy way to get a REPL with your favourite language stack. Supports Ruby & gems to start! Read more

EuRuKo (European Ruby Konference) 2018 @ Vienna (Austria) - 24+25th/Aug - Live Stream

Hello, the EuRuKo 2018 just kicked off this morning in Vienna, Austria. Big thanks to Ramón Huidobro (@SenorHuidobro), Super Princess Pilar (@Tamacodechi) and the org team for making in happen. Follow along with the EuRuKo 2018 live stream on YouTube for all talks!. Cheers. Prost.

Rails Rspec 3 View Test Examples

I use Rspec View for testing required html tags, required partial, or conditional in html. Here are some examples View specs with Rspec 3.7