TheOpenCMS. Weekly report #4

Hi there! There is a weekly report about my progress on my CMS project Changelog vol. 4

Learn Jekyll by Example - Vienna.html Showcase - 10+ Static (Open Source) Websites

Hello, in the Vienna.html Showcase I’ve collected more than 10+ great (open source) static websites built w/ Jekyll ‘n’ friends. Learn Jekyll by example - study the source of real world sites built w/ Ruby and Liquid templates. Sites include personal blogs, corporate team blogs, books, documentation, non profit foundations, podcast radio shows, open data world references, bookshelfs and more. Happy publishing with Jekyll ‘n’ friends. Cheers. PS: The Vienna.html user group meetup site is (of course) itself an open source showcase built w/ Jekyll ‘n’ GitHub Pages ;-).

How to use Textacular Gem to search data in your Rails Application

How to use Textacular Gem to search data in your Rails Application

Why classes eventually reach 50 columns and hundreds of methods

Find out what happens and what we often miss as developers when our applications continue to grow for a long time Read more

Segment Open Fellowship 2017

The Fellowship is a three month long program supporting three to five open-source developers with $8k per month to focus full-time on their project, no other strings attached. More details Segment Open Fellowship 2017

A silly coding error around case/when

A little writeup of a bug in my code around case/when syntax.

Podcast interview with Eileen Uchitelle about Rails Core

How does the Rails core team work? How are new features planned and implemented? How can I contribute? What should I do if I find a security issue in Rails? Our guest is the newest Rails core team member Eileen Uchitelle (@eileencodes) joins Table Xi senior developer Andrew Horner and host Noel Rappin (@noelrap) to discuss Rails, the new testing features in Rails 5.1, and the Rails Core Team. Read more

ActionCable: The Missing Guide

If you need server-side triggered updates, multi-user interaction, or simply more dynamic content, ActionCable might be a good fit for you. Read more

Monitoring Sidekiq using AWS Lambda and CloudWatch

I wrote a new article on Monitoring Sidekiq using AWS Lambda and CloudWatch. Hope you enjoy!

RailsConf 2017: 5 standout performance sessions

I’m a performance addict, so I’ve been scanning through the sessions and making notes of the ones that stand out. My short-list of performance-related sessions.

7 Considerations and Tradeoffs To Consider in Configuration Strategies

With the tech ecosystem being the thriving exemplar of diversity that it is, nearly every service provider (/third-party library/other programmer who ever existed) will instruct you in their project READMEs to handle configuration in a different way. Read more

10 Ruby on Rails Best Practices

In this post, we’re going to look at some of the best practices in Ruby on Rails.

Dry-Validation as a schema validation layer for Ruby on Rails API

Integrating dry-validation with your Ruby on Rails API endpoints can give you multiple benefits. Learn why and see how in this article: Dry-Validation as a schema validation layer for Ruby on Rails API

New arguments supported for float and integer modifiers in Ruby 2.4

Pluck deeply into nested associations

pluck is great when you simply want the attributes without the need of model construction. But if you want to pluck associated models’ attributes, you unfortunately can’t. deep_pluck allow you to pluck deeply into nested associations without loading a bunch of records. And DRY up your code when using #as_json.

From Rails to Hanami: Controllers

The second article of a series comparing Rails and Hanami, in which we will build a ToDo app showing the Rails version of the code, and how to achieve the same in Hanami.

How to Use Ruby and Watir to Scrape The Web?

Have you ever had the problem that some services miss an API integration and you need to click through a page manually? Or you wanted to automate a process? Here comes Watir, an open source Ruby library build for automated tests. Learn more here:

[Screencast] Pagination with Kaminari

When displaying a significant number of records, it is often a basic functions in a web application is to paginate the records and load them as requested. https://www.driftingruby.com/episodes/pagination-with-kaminari

Tutorial: Uploading files in your Rails application

Uploading files into your Rails application has never been easier, and with the a wealth of useful gems around to help there’s no better time to be working with files.In this tutorial, I’m going to run through uploading an image.

Why using constant mocking in RSpec is a bad idea?

This blog post explains why you should never write expect(Noo).to receive(:doo).and_return(bar) Read more

tty-editor v0.2.0

The latest tty-editor provides revised #open api that allows to distinguish between file and text content opening. It also adds support for Windows. Enjoy and happy hacking!

How to change the default new line delimiter in Ruby

One of the core pillars of motivation is having the opportunity to use some form of autonomy at the work that you do. Ruby programming language allows you to do just that with a lot of its built-in features. It gives you the ability to override methods of basic built-in classes, methods and also attributes. One such attribute in which we will focus on this article is the ability to change the default new line delimiter.

TheOpenCMS. Weekly report #3

Hi there! There is a weekly report about my progress on my CMS project Changelog vol. 3

Testing Jekyll Websites with Capybara

Do you have tests for your Jekyll website? If not, it’s pretty straightforward to test your Jekyll website using Capybara.

Thredded v0.11.0: Onebox support and more

Thredded, the best Rails forum engine, has just released v0.11.0. Major new features include onebox support, and the ability to automatically follow all new topics. See the release notes at https://github.com/thredded/thredded/releases