Merge sidekiq jobs for bulk notifications

I made sidekiq middleware which enables to merge jobs occurring before the execution time. Please check and try it and tell me your feedbacks! [more inside]

Mastering Roda eBook

I’m in the process of writing an eBook about Roda. [more inside]

Learn how to achieve parallelism with Ruby MRI using I/O bound threads

Even with MRI’s GIL, you can achieve parallelism with Ruby when using IO-bound threads.

Thredded v0.9.4: Post preview, math, and more

Thredded, the best Rails forums engine, has just released v0.9.4. This release adds preview-as-you-type, a server-side rendered math plugin via KaTeX, and more. [more inside]

Event Sourcing - a practical example using Ruby

A blog article where I show how the many different concepts of event sourcing can come together.

SmartSeeds - gem for smart auto generating of new records with random values

It determines types of fields(attributes) of an ActiveRecord model and creates records with random values for each of these attributes. [more inside]

Adding Active Admin to a Rails 5 API Application

Rails 5 API applications don’t include the view-rendering functionality that Active Admin (and other admin dashboard gems) require in order to work. Nonetheless, we still want to use those admin panels to visualize and manage our API data, without having to abandon API-mode altogether. Here’s how to have the best of both worlds by installing Active Admin on a Rails 5 API-only app

ROM 3.0 Released

Check out the official announcement of rom 3.0.0 that ships with rom-sql 1.0.0 and rom-repository 1.0.0.

[Screencast] Searchkick and Elasticsearch

Add full text searching using Searchkick and Elasticsearch. Here I will show the steps involved in adding this search to an existing application and a sample of autocomplete functionality. https://www.driftingruby.com/episodes/searchkick-and-elasticsearch

Omnivore API with Ruby on Rails

Accessing Omnivore API with Ruby on Rails [more inside]

TTY 0.6.0 release with new website!

The terminal toolkit tty sports a new shiny website and adds new components such as tty-file or tty-editor. Enjoy!

SpreadsheetArchitect v2.0.0 Released!

I just released v2.0.0 of my gem SpreadsheetArchitect. It includes many new styling features, enhanced cell types, multi-sheet creation capabilities, and much more. If you have not heard of it before, this library makes spreadsheet generation a breeze. https://github.com/westonganger/spreadsheet_architect

Efficiently Reindex Data in Searchkick 1

http://blog.nrowegt.com/event-driven-elasticsearch-bulk-updates/ explains how to setup efficient bulk reindexing for searchkick and elasticsearch using Rails callbacks and redis. Prior to Searchkick 2’s functionality, this is how bulk background reindexing was best implemented.

Using EXPLAIN ANALYZE to debug slow SQL queries

- Learn by example how we debugged a slow query on Reverb.com by using EXPLAIN ANALYZE.

AnyLogin - gem to quickly login as any user

Using Devise? Do you want to login as any user in system?

Flutterby Event Handling

I’m building a static site generator that can also be used as a full-on web application framework. Or is it a web application framework that can also be used as a static site generator? Seriously, what is this thing? Have I simply had too much chocolate milk again? [more inside]

acts_as_list refactoring part 2

In part 2 I continue refactoring acts_as_list Rails gem. I touch on better naming, mass assignment protection, singleton methods. [more inside]

The Importance of Benchmarking on Production: Redis Edition

There comes a time to benchmark your application and its services . However, if it’s not done properly, then your results can very misleading. In this post, I’ll throw some numbers at you to demonstrate the massive differences between benchmarking locally, on production, and locally pointing at a cloud resource. The numbers for each set of tests are different by an order of magnitude, demonstrating the importance of using the proper setup. [more inside]

Parsing PDFs using Tika and Nokogiri and indexing them for searching using Algolia

A step-by-step blog post I made showing how to use Apache Tika to extract text from a PDF file (it supports thousands of other files), parsing the resulting HTML with Nokogiri, then getting the resulting data easily indexed and searchable using Algolia.

A Secure JWT Authentication Implementation for Rack and Rails

I would like to share two Ruby libraries I made in order to implement some security tips in JWT token authentication. One of them is warden-jwt_auth, which can be used in any Rack application that uses Warden as authentication library. The other one is devise-jwt, which is just a thin layer on top of the first that automatically configures for devise and, subsequently, for Ruby on Rails. [more inside]

Rails DB version 1.4.1

let me just notify you about fixing an old issue with STI models and Rails DB gem. Now this issue is finally gone + added more specs to make sure it works in Rails 5. [more inside]

Setting up a simple Rails development environment with Docker for fun and profit

Creating a development environment may seem like a trivial task for many developers. As time progresses, and we find ourselves dwelling through the life cycle of so many projects, one probably ends up with a fragile and cluttered development machine, filled with an entropic set of unmanageable services and library versions, ultimately getting to a point where things simply start to crack without any apparent reason. [more inside]

How To Access Rails Routing Helpers From Anywhere In Your App

Fluent Interfaces in Ruby ecosystem

You already used fluent interfaces multiple times as a Ruby developer. Although you might not have done it consciously. And maybe you haven’t built yourself a class with such API style yet. Let me present you a couple of examples from Ruby and its ecosystem and how I designed such API in my use-case.

Install and SSH to Ubuntu Server on VirtualBox

This tutorial on the Treehouse blog will help you set up a virtual production server for testing out various deployment scenarios. The post will walk you through setting up a virtual machine on VirtualBox running Ubuntu Server (a common OS for Rails production deployments). Then, you’ll learn how to set up port forwarding so you can SSH from your development system into the virtual server.