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Rails 5 handles DateTime with better precision
Rails 5 handles DateTime with better precision [more inside]
Testing Rails Simple Guide — Part 3
Honestly, I feel confused when I was first learning the topic “testing in isolation”. I always struggle these questions: “What Stubs, Mocks and Spies means?”, “What purpose of using these techniques?”, “Which techniques should we use to apply certain scenarios?”. In this simple guide, let try to demystify these techniques by using the concrete examples. [more inside]
How and why should you use JSON API in your Rails API?
JSON API allows you to stop thinking about the API design while still having great opportunities to grow its functionality. In this blogpost I show why it is beneficial for you and how to use it together with Rails.
How Not to Lose Performance with Frozen String Literals in Ruby 2.3 and Later
Frozen string literals are supposed to speedup the code. But majority of Ruby and Rails code needs patching to support this feature. And it turns out it’s easy to make performance worse in the process. Learn how to avoid making this mistake: http://ruby-performance-book.com/blog/2016/02/is-ruby-2-3-faster-how-to-prepare-yourself-for-frozen-string-literals-and-not-lose-performance.html
All About Foreign Keys
The meaning of “foreign key” in Rails differs based on context. This post explores further. Hope you enjoy!
swift_client 0.1.2 with identity v3
Just released version 0.1.2 of swift_client, a powerful client for OpenStack Swift. This release brings support for openstack identity v3.
Install Nginx and Passenger to deploy Rails app
Read more: http://goo.gl/jFVrqY #nginx #passenger #rails #luanotes
Create A Simple, Self Referential Versioning System in Ruby on Rails]
Avoid the overhead of full featured auditing and versioning gems. Create A Simple, Self Referential Versioning System in Ruby on Rails
9 Places To Find Ruby and Rails Experts
Looking for Ruby or Rails experts? This 5-page guide shows you 9 places to search and attract talented and experienced experts.
RabbitMQ with Exponential Backoff
This post walks you through how to create set of queues with exponential backoff using RabbitMQ [more inside]
Wye Tech News #11
A new issue of our weekly compilation of interesting news and articles about Ruby, Rails, JavaScript and web development related stuff that we found during the week.
Building a simple WebSockets server from scratch in Ruby
What exactly are WebSockets? How do they work? In this post we’re going to answer these questions by building a simple WebSocket server from scratch in Ruby. - http://blog.honeybadger.io/building-a-simple-websockets-server-from-scratch-in-ruby/
Beware: Server-side APIs for Client-Side Rendering and Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
I did this mistake and I believe it’s a common scenario to consider: you have a Rails app, you need to quickly expose your resources as JSON APIs. You to the easy “#to_json” render so your Javascript SPA can do a quick Ajax fetch and, boom, your app is open to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability. Learn about it and how to protect yourself right now
Resident eval - code: Ruby. Survival guide
Different methods to eval ruby code http://undefined-reference.org/2016/02/22/resident_eval-code_ruby.html
Free Jekyll Book (Beta V2) Now w/ Manuscripts (New Book Format for Markdown)
Some news / updates about the Free Jekyll Book Series. The book uses now a new book format called Manuscripts. Basically all you need is your docs (in markdown) plus a book.yml and contents.yml and - of course - a Jekyll book theme and you’re done. See it in action (still early and rough) - The Jekyll “Manuscript” (source) that gets linked into the theme via a git submodule and thanks to GitHub Pages & Jekyll results in a single-page black & white online book. Cheers. PS: There’s also a second volume for plugins & tools and a third volume for octopress 3 - jekyll’s ferrari.
Deploy your code to Dokku with Codeship
How can you setup Codeship to deploy your code to Dokku on every green build: https://buildtoship.com/deploy-your-code-to-dokku-with-codeship/
Previewing Emails in Rails Applications With the Mail_View Gem
With the gem ‘mail_view, you can easily preview emails right from your development environment. Previewing mail is important to ensure that you are sending the right email and to the right person.. Read more about Mail_View Gem
Use of the specification pattern
encapsulate business rules in a specification object rather then leaving them as scattered relics that the next engineer will have to glue together and decrypt http://teotti.com/use-of-the-specification-pattern/
Smarf Doc 1.0: Automatic Rest API Documentation
Smarf Doc spies on your existing test suite and turns it into example API documentation. [more inside]
i18n-tasks v0.9.4
i18n-tasks helps you find and manage missing and unused translations. [more inside]
DynamoDB::Migration - A simple DynamoDB migration tool
https://github.com/henrylawson/dynamodb-migration - Allows for the creation of simple DynamoDB migrations that will be executed only once against a DynamoDB database to allow you to “migrate” the schema of the database over time. This is a simple implementation for DynamoDB, similar to tools such as FlywayDB and Active Record Migrations.
Ruby Static Times News #2 Articles, Themes & More for Jekyll, Middleman & Friends
Hello, some news bytes from the (Ruby) static site builder / generator world via @statictimes: [more inside]
Rails State of Mind, Part 1
http://gmile.me/rails-state-of-mind-pt1/ – In this post I explore what resulted in me having the values I have right now. And, ultimately, how did I come to change my attitude towards developing using Ruby on Rails.
Running tests should be FAST!
Let me name you some of the worst things in world: Final season of Two and a Half Men, stubbing your toe at night, text on meme which is too small to read and test suits where you have to wait for 5+ seconds before any of your tests run. https://chasingcrazydreams.wordpress.com/2016/02/20/running-tests-should-be-fast/