Listing the status of your migrations in Rails

db:migrate:status is a hidden treasure for checking the status of your migrations. It gives you an overview which migrations are applied, and which are still missing.

Code reviewing as a mindset

I wrote this post about why I love code reviews, and my approach to them. I wound up taking the Ruby-specific stuff out, but hopefully you still find it useful.

[Screencast] Client Side Encryption

Add an extra level of security to your application with client side encryption. Even over an SSL connection, there are attacks which could expose your users’ sensitive information. Using JSEncrypt, learn how to encrypt on the client side and decrypt on the server side. https://www.driftingruby.com/episodes/client-side-encryption

tty-command v0.3.0 release

Newest tty-command adds ability to enumerate over the command standard output.

schemadoc - document your database schemas (tables, columns, etc.) w/ Jekyll

Hello, I’ve updated the schemadoc-theme that lets you document your database schema, that is, tables, columns, etc. using a github pages (jekyll) theme / site. See the /schemadoc github org for more. Questions and comments welcome. Happy publishing (and documenting) w/ Jekyll. Cheers.

WrenchMode, a simple maintenance page gem and Heroku add-on

WrenchMode allows you to create a hassle-free and customizable maintenance page for your rails app with live updates and ip whitelisting. You can read about Heroku implementation here: A Better Heroku Maintenance Mode

Hello, Pages! Theme - Easy 1-2-3 Publishing w/ GitHub Pages (and Jekyll) Live Sample

Hello, I’ve put together a (simple) sample (static) website called Hello, Pages! (Source) using the latest and greatest built-in Jekyll plugins e.g. Optional Front Matter, README Index, Default Layout, and Titles from Headings that let you publish pages on GitHub without any configuration or front matter blocks e.g. just add some pages in plain text with markdown formatting. That’s it. Happy publishing w/ Jekyll. Cheers. PS: Bonus: I’ve added the Hello, Pages! V2 (Source) sample w/ custom layout, github banner, footer (w/ build time) and more.

NoMethodError `silence` On Logger Instance

How we've used Segment with Solidus ecommerce

We’ve currently integrated Segment in Solidus (fork of Spree) and wrote about what we’ve learned. Have a read there

How I fixed my biggest mistake with implementing background jobs

Rails 5 and ActiveRecord before_destroy callbacks

I recently stumbled in one of Rails 5 new breaking feature that somehow flew under my radar. It’s not a very recent change, still it’s the case that many others (at least at my company) missed it. I think that’ a good reason for talking a bit (more) about it: How requirements shaped my code, AKA Rails 5 and ActiveRecord before_destroy callbacks.

Re: What is the splat operator doing here?

This is a response to a question I received on a Ruby macro I wrote which uses the splat operator heavily. Here I describe the two different behaviors of the splat operator and detail how the macro works. Re: What is the splat operator doing here?

FXRuby Enhancement

If you need a quick and powerful way to put together a Ruby GUI application, here’s an enhancement to the FXRuby FOX Toolkit wrapper. It’s been reworked to make it more appealing for Rubyists. Read more

Rescue's Elegant Trick for Knowing Which Exceptions to Catch

You probably know how to ask Ruby to rescue specific exceptions. But how does Ruby know if a particular exception meets your criteria? In this article, we’ll walk through Ruby’s simple exception matching mechanism and see how we can use it to our advantage. - http://blog.honeybadger.io/ruby-rescue-elegant-trick-for-knowing-which-exceptions-to-catch/

Ruby wrapper around REST Countries API http://restcountries.eu

Basic API implementation for REST Countries API http://restcountries.eu Read more

binding.irb now available in Ruby 2.4

binding.irb similar to binding.pry is now available by default in Ruby 2.4

act-form - new gem help you to build form object!

ActForm is the gem that provide a simple way to create form object or command object or service object, it only depends on activemodel >= 5 and provides few api.

Jekyll Talks Theme - Write Your (Ruby) Talks in Markdown - Auto-Builds w/ GitHubPages

I’ve put together a ready-to-fork static site theme (for jekyll and github pages) that lets you write your talks in plain text with markdown formating. See a live demo @ henrythemes.github.io/jekyll-talks-theme ». Sample talks include: 1) Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Build Static (Web) Sites w/ Ruby - (Slides), (Source: drjekyll.md) 2) Stay Static - Jekyll vs Middleman - Build Static (Web) Sites w/ Ruby - (Slides), (Source: jekyll_vs_middleman.md) 3) Starter Sample (Blank Theme) - Habits - (Slides), (Source: starter.md) 4) Starter Sample (Blank5 Theme) - Habits - (Slides), (Source: starter5.md). Happy publishing w/ Jekyll. Cheers.

Creating data backed tables with Tabular and Ruby on Rails

A quick tutorial on how to build a data table with Tabular, a jQuery plugin, and Ruby on Rails. Tabular is a event and plugin based library, providing standard table functionality such as searching, sorting, pagination, etc..

Specifying parameters encoding by action in Rails

Learn how to accept parameters in different encoding than UTF-8 with a new feature coming to Rails. Read more

Use Elm in Rails 5 asset pipeline

Hi, i created small gem which should help you with using Elm in Rails 5 asset pipeline: Read more

Treat your dependencies like your own code

See how using version ranges in your gemspec results in nondeterministic Travis builds. One way of improving the situation is to treat your dependencies like your own code and trigger builds for dependency updates. So you can be sure your gem is working all the time.

What The Heck is Heap Fragmentation, and Why Should You Care?

The goal of Ruby 3 is to be three times faster than Ruby 2, but how? In this article we’ll discuss one performance bottleneck: heap fragmentation. You’ll learn how something as low-level as OS memory management can have real performance impacts on your Ruby apps. http://blog.url.com/blog/2017/01/10/heap-fragmentation-os-memory-management-ruby.html

"Ruby is still great"

After spending some time with The Hot New Stuffs (Elixir, Phoenix, Elm), I also realized just how much I still love Ruby, and why.

Introduction to writing a rack middleware

Beginner level article: on writing your own rack middleware.