What is your static site builder / generator of the year 2016? (Ruby Edition)

Hello, At the Static Times I’ve started a poll for the static site builder of the year 2016. The candidates include: (o) Middleman (o) Jekyll (o) Nanonc (o) Other? Let us know. ++ The poll runs for five days (on Twitter). You’re invited to add your vote. Thanks. Cheers. Read more

Rails SQL Injection Guide Updated with Rails 5

http://rails-sqli.org/ lists surprising SQL injection risks in regular ActiveRecord methods. It has been now been updated to include coverage of Rails 5. Read more

Rails caching with dalli gem

Dalli is a high performance pure Ruby client for accessing memcached servers. It works with memcached 1.4+ only, as it uses the newer binary protocol. Read On More about Rails Caching with Dalli Gem

Ruby 2.4 unifies Fixnum and Bignum into Integer

AWS Elastic Beanstalk via Docker for Ruby and Rails developers | SkillsCast, LRUG

https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/9280-aws-elastic-beanstalk-and-docker-for-rails-developers Read more

Ruby Podcast Episode 18

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Rewriting Ruby with synvert

Making Static Components Stateful With CSS/Sass

Using CSS/Sass to yield interactive designs from static Rails DOM fragment caches

Ruby 2.4 implements Array#min and Array#max

factbook.json & gem - Turn the World Factbook into Open (Structured) Data w/ Ruby

Hello, for some more info and background about the factbook gem and the free public domain factbook.json datasets and the C.I.A. World Factbook - I’ve put together talk notes titled “factbook.json - Turn the World Factbook into Open (Structured) Data” for the Open Data Vienna meetup. Enjoy. PS: Trivia quiz: What country has the most crude oil - proved reserves (according to the World Factbook)?

One request can be multiple commands

In one request can be multiple commands I explain how understanding that sometimes our forms or http requests are so big they convey multiple logical commands can help you simplify your code.

Telegram Bot app template

To start writing your bot from template - a matter of minutes. While new integration tests provide simple way to check bots in multi-user environment.

Rails: Generating Enum Hash Filter

In this episode we show you how to use ruby’s inject (reduce) to generate the hash for the filters to be rendered in the view.

An in-depth tutorial on Ruby blocks

Using Blocks in Ruby is a free excerpt from the Head First Ruby book. It demonstrates what blocks are and why they exist, then walks you step-by-step (with extensive diagrams) through the flow of control in a program that uses blocks. If you’ve struggled with blocks in the past, this is the best tutorial out there!

Swift for Javascript and Ruby Developers

I recently presented on the topic of learning Swift from the perspective of a developer currently familiar with Ruby or Javascript. I showed off some of the reasons why Swift is a pretty exciting language for those used to working with lightweight scripting languages, and I also demonstrated some example code that highlights similar functionality implementations across all three languages. Check out the presentation here.

Hanami v0.9.0

New hanami-model engine based on ROM. Database automapping, data integrity for entities, experimental associations, native PostgreSQL types.

How to change source for Active Model?

The nice thing about Active Record scopes is that you not only can specify where conditions. I recently had a need to run a query against a model to discover previous and next elements. This can be easily achieved using window functions. The trick was to change Active Model to use the query instead of the table.

Hunting down a memory leak in shoryuken

Use of Gon with Javascript & Rails

Using Rails data as a part of javascript is an extremely regular need, particularly for Javascript applications such as Angular, Ember and SPA. Here’s how you can do that.Use of Gon with Javascript & Rails

Rubycoders.io new landing page !

I have just relased a new landing page for Rubycoders.io please give me a feedback! Thanks!

Running Sinatra in the Pakyow Environment

Pakyow’s new Runtime Environment lets you mount multiple endpoints in a single process. It supports any Rack-compatible endpoint, which made me wonder if it would be possible to run a Sinatra app within the Pakyow Environment. I recorded a screencast with what I found »

A Rubyist's Guide to Big-O Notation

Big-O notation gives you crucial insight into why your apps aren’t as fast as you’d like them to be. In this post we’ll uncover the meaning of things like O(N^2) and show how to use these concepts to speed up your apps and your database queries. - http://blog.honeybadger.io/a-rubyist-s-guide-to-big-o-notation/

Gemsmith 8.0.0

Happy to announce a major version release of Gemsmith. This is a powerful tool for building professional-grade Ruby Gems with an emphasis on modern design, security, and high code quality standards. Also supports publishing to RubyGems or private gem servers. For further details, check out the v8.0.0 Changes.

[Screencast] Getting Started - Ruby on Rails - Development Environment

Here is a simple workflow of setting up a new development environment. From Homebrew, ZSH, Atom, and RVM, learn how to easily get your macOS environment up and running. https://www.driftingruby.com/episodes/getting-started-ruby-on-rails-development-environment

Thredded v0.8

Thredded, the best Rails forums engine, has just released v0.8.2. This is a major release that adds these major improvements: Read more