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Go Full Stack Rails - The Frontend part 2
This is the follow-up to a series covering the development of a clean, maintainable and well-tested full-stack application with Rails and ES6. In this post, we cover “Promises” in the context of the provided example application. There’s also some discussion around how to improve promise-based tests and tips for running JavaScript specs with code42template. We also have three other posts available: The Backend: part 1, The Backend: part 2, and The Frontend: part 1.
Introduction to data structures and time complexity
I wrote an introductory article about data structures, time complexity and basic algorithms.
How To Create Search Friendly Urls in Rails
How you can utilize slugs to make your URLs more relevant to the page content. Read More From Here->How To Create Search Friendly Urls in Rails
Developing a wizard or multi-steps forms in Rails
This article covers one way of developing a wizard or multi-steps forms linked to session data…
How To Make A DSL, Hygienically
DSLs are one of the cooler parts of Ruby (for some value of “cool”). Come and see how to make one.
tty-prompt 0.8.0 release with custom keybindings
tty-prompt new release gets quite few bug fixes but most importantly allows you to specify custom keybindings to provide ultimate Vim immersion :)
Refactoring Legacy Rails Controllers
The first step against bloated controllers is to get the legacy code under test. The refactoring concepts scale all the way up to the toughest refactors. Article here.
Chain service objects like a boss
How can we keep controllers and models skinny? One of the widely accepted solutions is the use of Service Objects. In this blog post I show how I structure and chain them to improve the flow of the application and refactor the model layer.
Avatar - Jekyll Plugin - Add Profile Pics (Speakers, Members, etc.) to Your Pages
Hello, the Planet Jekyll Plugin of the Month series presents a new addon for your (static) web pages every month. The first one in the series: Avatar - Add Profile Pics (Speakers, Members, etc.) to Your Pages. Happy Publishing w/ Jekyll. Cheers.
Helpy 1.1 released: New ticketing features and more
Helpy 1.1 has been released with some exciting new support ticketing features. Read the full Blog Post Announcement or Clone it
Better Login UX without security risks
Let’s break the bad practices of showing ambiguous error messages to our users and let’s start improving our login UX! Tweak your Devise forms with these three easy steps.
Paper Trail Gem: Track Changes to Your Models’ Data
Howdy, today I am going to talk about the versioning. How to specifically version your models? So wondering what I am talking about? What is that versioning and my models? [more inside]
Performance and stability in capybara tests
If you’ve got flaky or very slow UI tests this is the post for you. I gathered a number of sources and improvements and combined them into a set of suggestions for performance and stability and how a new gem intransient_capybara implements much of this for you. Your tests will never be the same! [more inside]
hexapdf 0.2.0 released - PDF file merging, ...
The hexapdf CLI gains support for PDF file merging, page interleaving and page step values; various improvements and bug fixes for the HexaPDF library - see the announcement.
[Screencast] Redis Basics
Redis within a Ruby on Rails application has many benefits. Learn to interact with Redis Server and set it up for caching within your application. https://www.driftingruby.com/episodes/redis-basics
On Structuring Rails Applications, Part II
When models and controllers are supposed to be skinny, Rails clearly lacks a place to put all the extracted code. While there is a variety of different approaches, we like to keep it simple, stupid. Read more on structuring rails applications in this second part of our blog post.
released heyupdate-ruby
heyupdate-ruby brings activity/progress reporting to your Ruby and Rails apps. What integrations are you going to build next?
rufus-scheduler 3.3.0 released
I just released rufus-scheduler 3.3.0. It’s a 3.3.x release since its timezone handling has been reworked.
Managing DB Schema & Data Changes
Policies to help teams manage Rails migrations, separating schema and data changes. As a team grows and the gotchas of DB changes get harder with scale, these policies help keep our team sane. DB Schema & Data Change Policies
CardsLib 0.2.2 released!
CardsLib is arguably the “smartest” OO card game library. This update includes adding custom card ranking in deck creation and a code example on how to implement the game “High Card”.