You've messed up a Rails migration. Now what?

You don’t want to burn your database down and start again, you just want to tweak and rerun your latest migration in your development environment. Here’s one way to handle it:

How to use Ruby logger in Rails ?

Checkout =>How to use Ruby logger in Rails ?

Continuous Deployment with CircleCI and Capistrano for Rails applications

Step by step configuration based on Rails as example

Saving multiple models with Form Objects and Transactions

In this article we continue to investigate ways to simplify Rails views with Form Objects

A shadowing bug seen in the wild

I came across a shadowing bug; it took me a while to spot it and figure out exactly what was going on.

Object oriented enumerations in Ruby

A gem for object-oriented enumerations in Ruby. Each class has a set of predefined instances, that represent the enumerated values. Inheritance and instance methods on enumerated values are supported as well.

Big Rails Apps - beyond Service Objects - a free Facebook Live

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Easy JWT authentication gem

Welcome to EasyJwtAuth! EasyJwtAuth is a ruby gem that allows easy use of JWT tokens in any ruby project or rails application, typically for authenticating and authorizing requests.

Different User Views In Rails Applications

How to create different page views for users that are based on their user type (Admin, Beta User, etc.) Click here for the full post

Reusable Validations In Rails Form Objects

Read how to compose form object validations from small pieces

Where to start when fixing tests

A blog post on how Avvo is working to stabilize and speed up our continuous integration test suite. We created JUnit Visualizer to help us pinpoint where we should focus. https://engineering.avvo.com/articles/where-to-start-when-fixing-tests.html

Developing Rails API Applications

I just released a new course for those interested in using Rails 5 to build API applications. It covers everything you need to get up and running: developing RESTful endpoints, working with ActiveModel::Serializers, authentication, and much more, and it’s available either as a free email course or for immediate download as a PDF (paid).

Striving Towards Maintainable Controllers

An article that journeys through various ways of making controllers better before finally settling on my own path.

For people that are fed up working on bad, awful and horrible code

…I’ve made a FREE course called How to be Happy Working on Bad Ruby Code

SporTV Play front-end architecture for the Olympic Games

How we evolved our front-end architecture using Back-end for Front-end pattern to create a new experience in SporTV Play for the Olympic Games.

How Rubycoders use Contentful cms to publish posts

At Rubycoders we have introduced contentful cms to manage blog articles

How to use Vue.js and Turbolinks together

If you’ve ever wanted to combine Vue.js and Turbolinks together in the same app, you may have run into a couple headaches. In this screencast, we explore how to make Vue.js and Turbolinks work together and the vue-turbolinks node module that you can drop in to make compatibility easy. https://gorails.com/episodes/how-to-use-vuejs-and-turbolinks-together

CLI Utilities for Unicode Strings

I have released two more CLI tools for analysis of Unicode data. The first one is uniscribe which prints out the names of all glyphs in a Unicode string. It also knows many names of combined codepoint sequences. Special codepoints are highlighted using a similar color scheme like in uniscribe’s companion tool unibits. The second utility is unicopy, a command-line codepoint dumper, which copies the result to the clipboard.

Binding irb - Runtime Invocation for IRB | BigBinary Blog

[ScreenCast] Form Fields

[Screencast] Javascript Select Form Fields with Chosen

Chosen is a jQuery plugin that makes long, unwieldy select boxes much more user-friendly. Learn how to use Chosen in a few different ways in this episode; Rails form builder and Simple Form. https://www.driftingruby.com/episodes/javascript-select-form-fields-with-chosen

NLP with Ruby list updated!

Hi there! Our awesome NLP with Ruby list has been essentially updated! [more inside]

TheOpenCMS. Web site has been launched and weekly report #6

Hi there! Release v0.1 is done. I’ve just launched a web site TheOpenCMS.org! YAY! Feel free to come, find and report bugs. Also you can check the Changelog vol. 6

Magic sprinkles for Capybara and PDF

Some magic sprinkles of config that I needed to get right to have pdf tests working well with capybara.

“Naming Things is Hard”

“Naming Things is Hard” This phrase is often brought up in our Ruby programmer community so I thought I’d take the time to address it.