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The case study for The Last API Wrapper

This post shows why you probably should consider using “The Last API Wrapper” next time you need to get something from HTTP API. Read more

Orchparty lets you generate docker-compose files with a clean Ruby DSL

Write your own orchestration config with a Ruby DSL that allows you to have mixins, imports and variables. Find out more

Southeast Ruby Conference

Attend the inaugural year of Southeast Ruby in Nashville, TN October 5 & 6. Avdi Grimm, Kinsey Ann Durham, Ernie Miller, Ben Orenstein and more.

Sorting your Gemfile with ease using ordinare gem

Ordinare sorts gems in your Gemfile alphabetically, while taking care of gem groups and comments above gems. Read more

football.json - New 2017/18 Season - Free open public domain football data in JSON

Hello, I’ve updated the /football.json repo /service that offers (auto-)generated match schedules (fixtures and results) and club listings for the major football leagues e.g. English Premier League, Deutsche Bundesliga, Primera División, Italian Seria A, etc. See the 2017-18 season folder for (static) JSON examples. No API key required ;-) All data public domain. Enjoy the beautiful game. Cheers. PS: Ruby works great for generating JSON; see the json.rb script for the code.

[Screencast] Custom Error Pages with Slack Notification

Learn to use custom error pages to provide a similar look to your application. Get notified on Slack as errors occur to act on them before they’re reported. https://www.driftingruby.com/episodes/custom-error-pages-with-slack-notification

Tips to improve speed of your test suite

At Appaloosa, most of our tests are written with Rspec, but we still have a certain amount of legacy Test Unit tests. Our Rspec and Test-Unit suites take up to 10 minutes each, so a full test suite runs in around 20 minutes. That’s a lot. We recently decided to invest time on improving our tests to gain time when developing.

Asynchronous Elasticsearch bulk reindexing with Rails, Searchkick and Sidekiq

This article describes how you can do asynchronous bulk reindexing for Elasticsearch with Searchkick and Sidekiq.

Working with Payments on Rails - Braintree

Travel in time during testing a Rails application

Check out the post about testing Rails application traveling in time: Read more

minispec-rails

A 50-line gem to add PURE Minitest::Spec to a modern Rails app. No more defining test classes. Just describe the right thing to get the right test type. Read more

APIQ CMS 1.0 Release

I’m happy to announce APIQ CMS 1.0 release and share a blog post highlighting the most notable features.

Speedy JSON Endpoints with Rails

A quick post about using the jb gem and Russian doll caching to speed up JSON results.

Implementing classification using a SVM in Ruby

In this blog post I will show how to solve a classification problem using a support vector machine (SVM) in Ruby. We will be using the RubyGem rb-libsvm to help us setup a SVM, train it and make predictions in a minutes. Read more

When one job saturates your workers and the rest queue up

6 techniques for handling a situation when one kind of a jobs starts behaving poorly and saturates your workers so the the rest of them starts queuing up and lagging: Read more

A gem for serializing HAL

Are you thinking about creating a new hypermedia API? If so, I just created a new gem called hal_decorator that turns your model instances into serialized json according to the HAL specification. That is, with properties, links and embedded resources.

We need better compartmentalization

With the latest updates from the unethical moves of Kite I think we need to invest time and find better ways on how to protect ourselves from such and similar attacks Read more

New Features in Ruby 2.4

I wrote a blog post on New Features in Ruby 2.4.

How learning Elixr made me better Ruby developer

I wrote a blog post about how Elixir made me better Rubyist.

What's the Difference Between Continuous Integration, Deployment and Delivery?

Most web devs are familiar with CI. But what exactly is the difference continuous deployment and continuous delivery? Are they basically the same thing? Read this article to find out — and post a comment if you’d like to add something.

Refactoring Fat Models

How to deactivate User – Rails with Devise

How to build a search form in APIQ CMS

The full guide on building a search form in APIQ CMS -

Learn How to model has_many relationships in DynamoDB

Explained how to model has_many relationships in DynamoDB with Rails in my latest article. Please read article and when it is better to normalize and de-normalize data stored in DynamoDB. Read more