How To Find Records Based On has_many Relationship Being Empty Or Not in Rails

Ruby 2.4 adds support for extracting named capture groups using MatchData#values_at

Learn to crawl and scrape websites with Ruby Mechanize

Learn how to code and ship your Ruby web scraping project faster. Grab your copy of the Ruby Mechanize Handbook, an easy to follow introduction to crawling and scraping websites with Ruby Mechanize. Or check out the HOWTO scrape websites with Ruby & Mechanize guide for free.

tty-prompt v0.9.0 with paged menus!

Newest tty-prompt adds ability to paginate menu lists for select, multi_select and enum_select prompts. Also this version fixes prompts to accept multibyte characters.

Introducing AnyCable, Action Cable on steroids

Action Cable is a fantastic interface — if only it would be performant enough in production! Unfortunately, running vanilla Action Cable will result in high memory consumption and poor handling of concurrent requests. Read more

Ruby 2.4 adds infinite? and finite? methods to Numeric

infinite and finite methods now available on Numeric. More details

Add Disqus Comments to Rails

I found a lot of outdated information about adding Disqus comments to Rails applications, which resulted in the plugin not loading, so I’ve put up updated information about how to quickly add this to your project. Read more

Cracking the Box Open with Module Factories

This post discusses a very useful feature that only a few Ruby programmers know: the module factory. Let’s dig into the object model to acknowledge how modules work under the hood, then walk through some possible use cases of modules and how these compare to module factories.

Capturing STDERR from within Ruby Programs

Recently I needed to capture the text of stderr in a Ruby script and the methods I knew for shelling out were insufficient. This post introduces the Open3 class and how it helped me. Read more

[Screencast] Sidekiq Basics

Sidekiq is a Ruby Background Processor that manages its queue with a Redis service. Learn the basics of Sidekiq and integrating it with ActiveJob. https://www.driftingruby.com/episodes/sidekiq-basics

Realtime audio processing with Ruby

Article about real-time audio processing in ruby: Read more

Drawers

I made a way to organize your rails apps in to a way that makes sense. A way to organize things into various drawers. Read more

Ruby Podcast Episode 20

Now available: Ruby Podcast #20

Replace the boring rails scaffold

With scaffold_pico you can create your own pretty administration in a second. Read more

Gem for testing APIs with rspec

rspec-api_helpers is a real gem that makes it easier for you to test your API responses in zero time. JSONAPI and regular JSON are supported but it has a modular design which means you can even write your adapter/

New gem read_source

An alternative to the method_source gem with the ability to open any Ruby method right into your VIM editor.

Design Patterns in Ruby

Webpack in Rails 5.1

Webpack will be available in Rails 5.1, in this screencast learn the basics of Webpack

A Few Ways To Run Your MiniTest Tests

Why We Chose Rails for Our MVP

I wrote a short piece on Medium about why I always come back to rails when I want speed and sanity. Check it out here: Our Path to MVP: Choosing Rails

Pokrex: web app built with Rails 5 + ActionCable + ReactJS

Pokrex is an online planning/pointing poker tool, which has clean UI and easy/friendly to use. It’s built with Rails 5, using ActionCable to do most of the communication and ReactJS for page rendering.

Benchmarking communication between Elixir and Ruby

Benchmarking communication between Elixir and Ruby described in last 3 posts. Read more

Cmd2Json: covert output to json for atomic logging

cmd2json coverts all output and the exit status (+host/timestamp/custom tags) of a command into a single json blob that can be logged atomically. Great for crons or other command output you want to log.

Differences in version handling between RubyGems and npm

Gareth Visagie talks about the differences in version handling between RubyGems and npm and the complications of making a tool work for both.

How to Use Any Gem in a Rails Production Console

If you’ve ever needed to use gems like benchmark-ips or awesome_print in production and they’re not available in the already bundled gems, check this post out!