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12 Things to consider when deploying HTTP Services
Rather than putting all domain logic into a single application monolith, modern software architectures tend to split functionality into multiple applications and services. [more inside]
Filtering Sensitive Parameters from Log Files in Rails 5
The ninth episode of Railscast is now updated to Rails 5 as a blog post. Learn all about Filtering Sensitive Parameters from Log Files in Rails 5
Unicode::Confusable
Unicode::Confusable.confusable? "ℜ𝘂ᖯʏ", "Ruby" # => true
There are many Unicode characters that look very similar or even the same, but are represented by different codepoints. For example, there is no visual difference between some latin and cyrillic letters: “C” vs “С”. The unicode-confusable gem can be used to compare if two strings look very similar.
New Markdown News Channel @manuscriptsnews - Write Hypertext Markup in Plain Text
Hello, I’ve started a news channel, that is, @manuscriptsnews covering news, tools ‘n’ tips & tricks about writing books, articles, posts etc. in plain text with markdown (and kramdown ;-)). News bytes include: [more inside]
Rails controllers hierarchy and views path
I show how we can use controllers hierarchy and avoid specifying each view’s path explicitly. http://thepry.github.io/rails-controllers-hierarchy-and-views
FactoryGirl Beyond the Database by Miguel Palhas
FactoryGirl can create plain old Ruby objects too. https://subvisual.co/blog/posts/73-factorygirl-beyond-the-database
Integrate bootstrap 4 with Rails 5
Checkout sample Rails 5 project that Integrates bootstrap 4 with Rails 5
Rails 4.2.6 and 4.1.15 have been released!
The Ruby on Rails team has announced new versions of Rails. http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2016/3/11/Rails-4-2-6-and-4-1-15-have-been-released/
Suppress save events in Rails 5
You can now suppress save events in Rails 5. [more inside]
SpreadsheetArchitect v1.2.0 Released
SpreadsheetArchitect lets you turn any activerecord relation or ruby object collection into a XLSX, ODS, or CSV spreadsheet. https://github.com/westonganger/spreadsheet_architect
Rails 5 and Docker: Lessons Learnt
With the modern DevOps development pipelines and bleeding edge container technologies build around Docker, it is relatively easy to scale and run Rails applications in production on any cloud; private, public or even hybrid. On paper. The fact is, Rails is not the easiest framework to run as containers. http://blog.kontena.io/rails-5-and-docker/
Top 5 Tools to Expand Utility of Ruby on Rails
Here are 5 best tools to expand the utility of Ruby on Rails . These tools will effectively make the platform better and user friendly.
Introducing has_reindexable_associations gem for Elasticsearch
This gem enables automatic Elasticsearch reindexing of ActiveRecord associations. One can keep specified associations in sync with ease using async reindexing. https://github.com/efigence/has_reindexable_associations
fec - Terminal utils to change multiple file's extension
https://github.com/CQBinh/fec Rename all files extension inside folder (including recursive folder).
Symbol to_proc Hack
Learn how to bind variables to a block variable at run-time by studying the Symbol to_proc Hack
Introducing URN gem
Ruby library to validate and normalize URNs according to RFC 2141. https://github.com/altmetric/urn
My New Favorite Enumerable Method
In this post I share some of my favorite Enumerable methods with examples. http://www.blackbytes.info/2016/03/enumerable-methods/
The Case Against Dynamic Typing
http://blog.debugme.eu/dynamic-typing/ An argument for dynamic typing is that by not enforcing the types of a function’s parameters, the function becomes more generalized, and thus more flexible and reusable. The author argues that this flexibility versus automatically-verifiable correctness of the system is not a trade-off we need to make. [more inside]
PostgreSQL and Rails, sitting in a tree: working with huge datasets
A post on working with large hierarchical structures in a Ruby on Rails + PostgreSQL application. The author does an overview of the most popular patterns, benchmarks them, and proves why the Closure Tree pattern, while not being very popular, sometimes outperforms the competition by far. [more inside]
Denshobato Gem Released! + Tutorial
Denshobato - is a Rails gem that helps models communicate with each other. It gives simple api for creating a complete conversation system. [more inside]
Building a microservice in Ruby
How can we build a microservice in Ruby? In this post I describe the way we built a simple mailer service with RabbitMQ and sneakers.