Rails Autocomplete with Selectize and Searchkick

A simple overview of how to create an efficient autocompleting select menu in Rails 5.1 using Selectize and Searchkick (ElasticSearch). Read more

Ruby Standard Gems

Ruby’s standard library will be gemified. This means that stdlibs will be updatable as gems, without having to wait for a new release of Ruby itself. I put up stdgems.org to keep track of which Ruby version comes with which standard gems.

[24h free video] - Set up your Rails Prototype

[Screencast] Autocomplete with HTML Results

Working with an autocomplete can be very simple. However, things get complicated when you try to use HTML markup in the displayed results. Learn how to use HTML markup within your autocomplete results!

Do you imagine yourself programming for 50 years?

Would you even want to? What do you think? Read more

Tracebin - A "bin"-style APM

Tracebin is a lightweight and simple APM that works with your Rails or Sinatra web application. You create a “bin” and install the agent, and we’ll collect performance statistics and display the most recent 24 hours of data on a simple page. Tracebin is an open-source project that we built from scratch! Here is an educational article on how it’s all put together! GitHub | Website

When you're a Rails developer but your client wants WordPress

When you’re a Rails developer but your client wants WordPress Read more

Universal feedparser gem adds authors & tags/categories for RSS, Atom, @JSONFeed

Hello, I’ve updated the universal feedparser gem. What’s news in v1.2? Added authors and tags/categories for all formats, that is, RSS, Atom and the new JSON Feed format. Use feed.author or feed.items.first.author or feed.items.first.tags and so on. PS: What’s JSON Feed? See the talk notes “Meet Jason Feed - The New Web Feed & Content Syndication Guy”.

Testing cookies in rails

Testing cookies in rails, in especially important difference in handling (and therefore testing) of cookie’s expiration time in different kind of specs (controller specs, request specs, feature specs). Read more

Last 36 hours for the Rails Composer Kickstarter

You can support the work required to update Rails Composer for Rails 5.1 with a contribution to the Kickstarter campaign. Rewards include two months of GoRails and one month of the Learn Enough Society. There’s just 36 hours left to reach the fundraising goal.

Refactoring series: acts_as_list part 3

In this refactoring adventure I’m going to focus on just one 11-line method, and surprisingly, there’s a lot of things that can be improved in just one method. Watch as I choose better names, strip unnecessary variables, work with some ActiveRecord internals and make code intent clearer.

How to convert a Ruby primitive to a custom domain object in two minutes

You already know why you want to use domain objects instead of Ruby’s built-in primitives… but what do you do if you’ve already used strings and integers all over the place? Did you code yourself into a corner? Are you going to have to change lots of code, and potentially break things? Of course not! You can convert a Ruby primitive into a custom domain object in just a few minutes…

Conference Talks, Interviews, and the Pen!

As many of the people who follow this feed are tech conference speakers, I’d be interested in hearing feedback on my take of most tech talks.

My 2.5 Year Journey with Vim and Why I Switched Back to Sublime Text

My 2.5 Year Journey with Vim and Why I Switched Back to Sublime Text

Ruby Case

Well, today I bring the way how Ruby treats it’s switch case. Let’s go, check out this post:

Simple tutorial on how to integrate Facebook and Rails 5

Learn how to do a simple Facebook integration in Rails 5 using Devise, Omniauth and Koala.

Exploring infinite sequences

Infinite sequences can make some algorithms (like numerical analysis) more clear by allowing common code to be reused. Haskell’s lazy evaluation makes infinite sequences easy in that language, but it’s possible in Ruby, with a little work.

Using React in your Rails app

Learn how to use React easily in your new or existing Rails app.

Writing Ruby gems with Rust and Helix

Learn how to write (from scratch) faster Ruby gems with Rust and Helix.

Why write code when more dependencies will do?

Adding gems is so easy, but sometimes your own code is better. Why write code when more dependencies will do?

Obey the "Single Level of Abstraction" rule

This rule helps to make your code more readable, you must obey the rule.

Lessons learnt in our third year running a Ruby dev consultancy

Hola everyone! It’s been a while since I haven’t posted anything, but I’d like to share our latest blog post. Read more

A quick tour of metaprogramming

If you pry into the beating heart of any Rails application, any testing framework, any beautiful DSL, you’ll find it filled with metaprogramming: code that writes code. In fact, a lot of the features Ruby devs use would be impossible without it. Yet many of us prefer to avoid metaprogramming in our own code. This is a brief tour of metaprogramming for Rubyists.

Rails_DB upgrade

Thanks to @bbenezech of doing a lot of changes to rails_db gem and cleaning up some dependencies. Read more

Rails 5.1 adds delegate_missing_to

This blog discusses how Rails 5.1 added delegate_missing_to method.