Do not put Rails on the whale

Having trouble using Rails inside docker? Just give up:

Six Tips for Mastering your Procfile

Not strictly Ruby, but definitely useful if you deploy a Rails app to Heroku. It’s a quick read with some simple ways to leverage a Procfile to run your application processes.

How to Test Ruby Modules With Rspec

When you have a module that you include in other classes, the way you test it might not be obvious. Testing ruby modules will be easier after you read this tutorial.

Instant page loads with Turbolinks and prefetch

Turbolinks can dramatically speed up your website by not requiring and evaluating CSS and Javascript for each pageload. Instantclick will preload any links when you hover over them instead of when you click. What about having Turbolinks AND “instant clicks”? [more inside]

Numbers and Class Hierarchy in Ruby

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

sportdb Gem/Library Guide - Working w/ Football CSV Files - English Premier League

Hello, I’ve written-up a hands-on getting started guide for the new sportdb text library / gem. Let’s build the standings table for the English Premier League (EPL) for the 2017/18 season from all 380 matches in the comma-separated values (.csv) format. Full article titled “Working with CSV Files”. Enjoy the beautiful game with ruby.

3 Practical Examples Of Ruby Blocks

Have you ever wanted to learn how to use Ruby blocks in a practical way? In this video I’ll show you how:

My favorite parts of Ruby

Top Spree E-Commerce Extensions to Build Ruby E-Commerce Store

Spree E-Commerce is a complete, scalable, API-driven open source E-commerce framework built with Ruby on Rails. Spree is well suited to serve as a custom technology platform to build any type of an E-commerce application.

Spreadsheet Architect celebrates 800 Stars on GitHub!

I would like to celebrate and share with you that my most popular open source project, Spreadsheet Architect, has recently surpassed 800 Stars on GitHub. It makes me happy to know that it has helped many people in their Ruby programming endeavours. I hope this library continues to help you the same way it has aided me. What is this gem? Spreadsheet Architect is a library that allows you to create XLSX, ODS, or CSV spreadsheets super easily from ActiveRecord relations, plain Ruby objects, or tabular data. https://github.com/westonganger/spreadsheet_architect

The ENV object

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

Let vs. Let! vs. Instance Variables in RSpec

A common source of confusion when using RSpec is whether to use let, let!, or an instance variable, for storing state.

Doing more on reads vs writes

What do you like more in your application? Handling complexity when reading the data or when updating it? Let’s compare 3 different approaches.

Guide to Upgrade Rails from 5.0 to 5.1

How I Create a New Ruby on Rails Project

This is the process I use to create a new Ruby on Rails project. I usually use the latest stable version of Ruby/Rails and it’s companion gems.

The nil value in Ruby

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

Everything You Need to Know About Ruby Operators

Ruby has a lot of interesting operators, like the spaceship operator & the modulo assignment operator. But did you know that many of these operators are Ruby methods? Learn more here:

Easy GraphQL Caching for Ruby/Rails

We have released a gem that allows you to make any graphql-ruby field easily cacheable by simply adding “cache: true” to them.

Podcast interview - Aaron Sumner, author of Everyday Rails Testing with RSpec

Aaron Sumner’s excellent book, Everyday Rails Testing with RSpec, is frequently recommended as a resource for newcomers to Rails testing. Today I interviewed Aaron on The Ruby Testing Podcast.

Rspec File Chef - File Environment control

RSpec File Environment control. Keeper of current state of tracked files and temporary files cleaner.

Thin and maintainable Rails mailers: how we refactored Rails mailers at mkdev

Our developer Yauheni drastically refactored all the mailing system code with the new Rails 5.1 features. We made him to share the story in a new article in the series ‘Development of mkdev’. Read it to find out how to make mailers in Rails simpler, smaller and more flexible. [more inside]

Designing a Successful Microservices Engineering Culture

Learn how to ensure your team culture meshes well with a microservices architecture

JavaScript-sprinkled Rails Applications

Serving a page from the cache with user-specific dynamic data? JavaScript sprinkles can load just the dynamic bits while the rest of the page comes straight from the cache.

11 books every RoR developer should read

https://www.netguru.co/codestories/11-books-every-ror-developer-should-read

The Forwardable module: Part II

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