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Awesome Functional [Progamming (FP)] with Ruby @ Planet Ruby - Edit Me!
Hello, I’ve started a new page / repo titled “Awesome Functional” to collect all things functional in ruby (incl. functional-style programming, pattern matching, immutability, and more). Contributions welcome. Cheers. Prost.
Ruby 2.6.0-preview1 Released
Early version of Ruby 2.6.0-preview1 has been released.
Node.js Ops First with Pandora.js, Today
https://github.com/midwayjs/pandora/wiki/Node.js-Ops-First-with-Pandora.js,-Today Pandora.js is an application manager dedicated to Node.js applications. The first release is built by Taobao Midway team mostly, and involves contributors all over Alibaba group. [more inside]
Blockchain App with Ruby
Blockchain allows us to create applications which do not depend on the centralized resource. How to create a decentralized application based on Ruby on Rails? https://www.nopio.com/blog/blockchain-app-ruby/
Komponent : Component-based in Ruby on Rails
A Rails gem introducing an opinionated way of organizing front-end code, based on components: https://github.com/komposable/komponent
Rails 5.2 supports specifying default value for a class_attribute
A short blog post explains how Rails 5.2 now supports specifying a default value for the class attributes defined using class_attribute: https://blog.bigbinary.com/2018/02/21/rails-5-2-supports-specifying-default-value-for-a-class_attribute.html
Rails `after_commit` everywhere
A short post explaining how transactional callbacks work and how to use them outside of ActiveRecord objects easily. [more inside]
Rethinking the dependencies badge
My proposal for a new dependencies badge that is less binary and more intentional and considerate. Would love your feedback!
Better way to log background jobs
How to setup and use logging mechanism for your background jobs - tutorial with code examples based on Sidekiq: https://www.netguru.co/codestories/better-way-to-log-your-background-jobs
RoR logs analyzer (look forward for feedback)
See how often/fast your views are rendering: https://github.com/igorkasyanchuk/log_analyzer
RubyElixirConf Taiwan 2018 ticket available now
RubyElixirConf Taiwan 2018, successor of RubyConf Taiwan is a three track and semi-international conference and will be held between 2018/4/27-28 at CHANG YUNG-FA FOUNDATION International Convention Center Taipei; tickets are available now at https://goo.gl/2nJAzX.
RSpec – fix randomly failing tests easily
A randomly failing test is one of the most annoying moments during test creation process. Mostly, such spec doesn’t fail in our development environment but on Continuous Integration service. There is a way to detect which spec causes this issue. Read more
The anatomy of search pages
What kind of components do we need to use to make a great search page? Let’s have a look. https://blog.arkency.com/the-anatomy-of-search-pages/
Ruby Unconf 2018 Hamburg, Germany
The very first Ruby Unconf takes place on 5th and 6th of May in Hamburg, Germany and will provide an open, accessible and inclusive event for the Ruby community. You can actively participate by proposing topics, giving talks and by discussing the topics you think are worth presenting. [more inside]
Wallaby: a newcomer in the admin interface market
Are you struggling to choose between ActiveAdmin and Rails Admin? Just to confuse you even further, there is a now a third option: Wallaby. https://reinteractive.com/posts/351-wallaby-a-newcomer-in-the-admin-interface-market
The @VanityFair fake-news on Rails - Twitter (all over again)
I am very disappointed when traditional news keep posting the same old memes all over again. To shed some light, this is my Quora answer on the subject and this an old interview (from 2008) with Blaine Cook, original Twitter dev.
Ruby string literals VS Value objects. Overengineering?
A guide on how to get rid of string literals in Ruby with Rails 5 Attributes AP http://jetrockets.pro/blog/ruby-string-literals-vs-value-objects-overengineering
Ruby on Rails – immediate mail delivery in development
Emails are very important part of almost every Ruby on Rails application so it’s important to test them well during the development process. Learn how to test emails easily
Object-Oriented Views in Rails. How to deal with views complexity
During working on one project we faced with a complex logic that included 5 user roles, 8 components, etc. We tried different solutions like using a separate namespaced controller, partials and helpers. But there was a better solution - cells. [more inside]
Running Tests with Guard and Docker
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to set up Guard in a Docker container. Automatically run tests as you update your app’s code, all within an isolated container. chrisblunt.com/ruby-on-rails-running-tests-with-guard-and-docker/
Top Trending Jekyll (Static) Website Themes by GitHub Stars @ Dr Jekyll's Themes
Hello, I’ve updated all 200+ Jekyll (static) website compiler themes at the Dr Jekyll’s theme directory / listing. The trending page shows the fastest growing (by github stars/month) themes. Congrats to Michael Rose for the outstanding #1 Minimal Mistakes theme. Happy publishing with Jekyll and friends.
Hm: idiomatic chainable hash transformations
Hm provides a small, idiomatic, no-monkeypatching DSL for transforming deeply nested hashes (renaming and removing keys, converting values, merging subhashes and more).