Characteristics

Need to do low-level string encoding work? Meet characteristics, a Ruby library that tells you some basic info about single codepoints, like: is it assigned? is it a control character? is it a whitespace? Works with Unicode and single byte based encodings.

Best Ruby / Ruby on Rails books

List of 20 best Ruby / Ruby on Rails books to read mentioned on stackoverflow.com

RuCaptcha - The best Captcha solution ever.

This is a Captcha gem for Rails Applications. It drawing captcha image with C code. That means you don’t need ImageMagick or RMagick any more. And it very fast. [more inside]

How to Sort Arrays in Ruby - BR

Draft Blog Posts in Middleman

We love the static site generator Middleman and used it to build RubyLetter. But Middleman doesn’t come with a drafts folder like Jekyll does. In this blog post, we walk through how to simulate Jekyll’s _drafts folder in Middleman. http://www.rubyletter.com/blog/2017/03/15/middleman-blog-drafts.html

Dealing with Test Leakage

Writing tests is always a bit finicky. That said, these frustrations grow to their awful peak whenever your suite of tests turns up indeterminate results. The classic example is when one of your normally passing tests randomly fails—even though the code hasn’t changed one iota. [more inside]

Tips for Programming Accounting Features in Web Apps

At what point in your life did you realise you were no longer a child but rather an adult? Donning a suit for the first time? Or being obliged to make and pay rent, month after month? The web application developer equivalent of all this growing up is….don’t get your hopes up…accounting. [more inside]

Google Spreadsheets and Ruby

Sometimes you don’t need a database. Maybe you’re building a prototype or a simple internal application. Using a Google Spreadsheet can be quicker and easier to set up and get going with. Here’s how to use the google_drive gem to read, write and delete data from a Google Spreadsheet.

Faster Rails: How to Check if a Record Exists

If your Rails app is getting slower, here are some tips on how you can make your Active Record queries faster:

How not to cut your source with sharp knife as Monkey Patch in Ruby

One of the most powerful Ruby features is the ability to re-open any class and change it’s methods. [more inside]

Reasons to attend EuRuKo 2017

Hi! [more inside]

Ruby 2.4 has optimized lstrip and strip methods for single byte strings

Reading Ruby Code: ROM - Exploration

Reading Ruby Code is an on going series on code reading that explores the ROM library. In this post we begin exploring ROM and its container method.

A Rubyist's Guide to Postgresql's Explain

If you want to understand why your database queries maybe aren’t as fast as they used to be, nothing beats a little feature of postgres called ‘explain.’ http://www.rubyletter.com/blog/2017/03/13/rubyist-guide-to-postgres-explain.html

Sending Emails with Rails on Heroku using Devise and SendGrid

How to set up your Heroku hosted Rails application to send emails utilizing SendGrid. Click here to read the full article

Creating Form Objects with ActiveModel

In this article we demonstrate how you can simplify your Rails views with Form Objects

Using Handlebars JS with Ruby on Rails. Great templating library to make SPA

[Screencast] Nested Forms with Cocoon

Using the unobtrusive gem, Cocoon, learn how to handle multiple models in a single form with accepts_nested_attributes_for. https://www.driftingruby.com/episodes/nested-forms-with-cocoon

Decent Exposure Gem

Goodbye to repeating instance variables - Decent Exposure Gem

oakdex-pokedex first release

Version 0.1.0 contains 802 Pokemon and 702 Moves and much more! Please checkout oakdex-pokedex and give me a star if you like it :)

TheOpenCMS. the Beginning

This week I’ve started creation of my own CMS. Wish me Good Luck. Changelog vol. 1

Rails DB version upgrade

gem was upgraded with removed not needed assets, Rails 3.2 improvements, Rails 5 tests now using 5.0.2 version.

Duo-lingual invoices with InvoicePrinter 0.0.9

I released InvoicePrinter 0.0.9. This version brings sublabels that can be used for duo-lingual invoices as shown on a new international invoice example. Read the announcement on my blog.

Deploy your RoR app to heroku

This is a simple gist that show instructions to deploy an RoR app on heroku.

gem Voiceless

This simple gem helps to keep system work if some part of the system is not included. [more inside]