respond_to |format| is useful even without multiple formats

You might think that if a controller action is only capable of rendering HTML, there is not much reason to use respond_to. After all, this is what Rails scaffold probably taught you. [more inside]

How To Perform A Task After View Render Using Threads In Rails

Heres a simple technique for running code after the render or redirect using a new Thread.

New blog article: Web applications on Phusion Passenger are not vulnerable to HTTPoxy

We wrote a short blog article on how HTTPoxy can affect web application security, why applications on Passenger are not vulnerable and why Ruby apps in general are not vulnerable. Read about it here

New gem for the Gyft API

I have a little project that required me to work with the Gyft developer API. As there was no gem yet I decided to build one.

Ruby compiled code in Rubinius

A small post about how to compile one script and require the compiled version in Rubinius.

Multi-model searching using Elasticsearch vol. 3

Final part of the mini series about using Elasticsearch to search across multiple models. [more inside]

New Features in Ruby 2.4

Code examples for 15 new features and improvements coming in Ruby 2.4

A new player in Rails CMS team

Happy to announce new open source Ruby on Rails CMS. Let’s build websites faster and simpler with KMS -

Returning unique records from an ActiveRecord query

Introduced in Rails 4.1, #distinct is a nice addition which moves you one more step away from writing custom SQL statements in your Rails project.

Clean up your routes with Sinatra::Namespace

After fighting with Sinatra::Namespace for a few weeks, the build is finally green! Since then, I’ve added some documentation for writing your Sinatra routes in a modular fashion and wanted to share that here too. Read on!

Post Rails-Way Book Bundle

Together with other book/video authors, we’ve decided to create a Post Rails Book Bundle. The theme of the bundle is all things which are beyond “The Rails Way”. The offer is time-limited and ends on Friday this week. [more inside]

Rails: Namespacing our Controllers Parts 1 and 2

In these (part 1, part 2) videos we show you how to namespace your controllers. Namespacing your controller can help keep your monolith application clean and manageable.

Hiding secrets in Vault

Stop storing your secrets in git and make your applications secure. I have written a blog post how to setup your own production-grade system, scalable system for managing secrets.

PureCDB - 32 and 64 bit CDB files in pure Ruby

PureCDB is a pure Ruby implementation of Bernsteins CDB format. It supports both reading and writing both standard 32 bit CDB files (limited to 4GB) and extended 64 bit CDB files which can be bigger. Uses ffi-mmap to mmap() the files on reading.

FFI based Mmap gem

ffi-mmap is a very bare-bones Mmap implementation using FFI instead of a C extension. I wrote this for a project when I realised the old mmap extension wouldn’t compile on the version of Ruby I was testing my project on.

Continuously check your Ruby dependencies

I just recently launched Dependency CI, it has great support for Ruby dependencies and it’s completely free for open source projects too.

How to get notified when your test suite is done running

This trick will interrupt you when your tests are finished, letting you know it’s time to get back to coding. [more inside]

link_to Current Page & Params Plus Additional Params In Rails

Writing a middleware for your Sinatra app

Follow this tutorial to create a middleware yourself. [more inside]

How to generate non predicable alphanumerical ids in Rails?

In many applications you generate ids that are visible to customers or used in links. Rails by default uses sequential integers which are easily guessable. Here’s a short summary of gems you can use to create non-predictable, YouTube-like identifiers in your app.

How can Ruby on Rails benefit your web applications?

Everyone wants to maximize efficiency and your software development too should push you ahead instead of pulling you back. Ruby on Rails with its faster iteration and great utility puts it way ahead of other programming languages. Check out how Ruby on Rails can benefit your web application Read More

Grill.rb 2016 – Poland’s first Ruby outdoor conference review

If you’ve missed first Poland’s outdoor conference, here’s my review of the whole event.

Refinery CMS 3.0.4 released

v3.0.4 has been released, most important changes: allowed finders to be defined for each action, Improved HTML sanitizer, fixed multiple locales sitemap generator, fixed heroku generator. You can read the blog post for more informations: Refinery CMS 3.0.4 Released

AutoReloader: A transparent code reloader for Ruby

These days I’ve published auto_reloader, a transparent code reloader for Ruby and wrote about the reason in this article.

A Review of Code Reloaders for Ruby

I’ve just written a review of code reloaders for Ruby, which is specially useful for non Rails web apps.