UI Tests With Capybara In Ruby

Your Rails web application should work every time, for every user, and on every browser. Here’s how to use Capybara to mimic how a user would locate web elements in your app.

Exception Notifier: Receive Free Emails For The Unhandled Rails Application

Mutation testing for Rails views

I’ve been experimenting with mutant for a long time now and I’ve been very happy with the result - a 100% mutation coverage on some of my projects. There was one part which I wasn’t happy about - I wasn’t able to cover my rails views with mutant. [more inside]

tensorflow is coming to ruby!

This Blog encourages the idea of combining tensorflow and ruby.

Building a Voice Alerts Broadcast System using Ruby and the Nexmo Text-to-Speech API

Sometimes a text message won’t do. When you really want to be alerted about something important you probably want to receive an actual phone call; whether it’s because a server is down, or because a natural disaster has occurred in your area. [more inside]

Obfuscating the Obvious

This post explores how making assumptions or inferences in your code ultimately leads to obfuscating what should be obvious.

[gem] SuperToken: ActiveRecord unique token generator with prefix and length options

SuperToken is a fork of HasSecureToken module which is provides an easy way to generate uniques random tokens for any model in ruby on rails. SuperToken gives you a way to prefix token with string and change token length. [more inside]

A Review Of Immutability In Ruby

This article is a review of the options available to Rubyists regarding immutability. We’ll look at the built-in features of Ruby 2.3, and a few gems.

Solidus eCommerce: Checkout Address Step and Shipping / Tax Calculation

In this episode we do a code walk through, of how we got the checkout page progress bar to work with the bootstrap style. We show you the thought process behind the code that we override from the original solidus source.

Creating Rails 5 API only application following JSON:API specification

This article describes how to build API only Rails application using new Rails 5 –api option. Further, I’ll explain how to follow JSON:API specification in your code, how to test your API’s and cover token authentication using some of the new Rails 5 features.

Dr Jekyll's Themes - Free Jekyll Theme Listing / Directory - Summer 2016 Update

Hello, I’ve updated the alternative Jekyll theme site called “Dr. Jekyll’s Themes”. What’s news? New themes, themes, themes: Ink by Ashish Gupta; Mono by Akshay Agarwal; Immaculate by Lau Siaw Young; Mangan by Diki Andriansyah; Indigo Minimalist by Sérgio Kopplin; Photorama by Sunbliss; Slender by Jannik Richter; Gravity, Dev Journal, Safarnama by Hemang Kumar; Decent by Jens Willmer; Thinkspace by Heiswayi Nrird; Urban by Dennis Rohner; Octopod by Stefan Haslinger; Octobook Classics by Gerald Bauer; Octobook Git by Mathieu David and some more. +++ Thanks to all for adding ready-to-fork static site themes. New themes always welcome. Happy site building with Jekyll n friends. Cheers. +++ (Update Jun/21) I’ve added a news channel on twitter for new themes. Follow along @drjekyllthemes

Akita's Manga Downloadr Elixir vs Ruby performance revisited

I’ve written a response to Fabio Akita’s article published 2 weeks ago comparing the performance of his Manga Downloadr implementations in Elixir, Crystal and Ruby. [more inside]

[Screencast] Playing with JSON

Some neat tips and tricks for interacting with and parsing JSON responses from an API.

A Slack powered music player for you and your team

To play around with Rails 5 and ActionCable I created a music player app powered by Youtube and Slack. Hosting it is free too, thanks to Heroku. [more inside]

Redis migrate to SSDB tools

Redis-SSDB-Proxy that read from redis(or ssdb) write to both use for redis <=> ssdb migration on production

Rails 5 introduces country_zones helper method to ActiveSupport::TimeZone

Rails 5 adds finish option in find_in_batches

Rails 5 prevents destructive action on production database

Rails 5 allows to update records in AR Relation with callbacks and validations

Rails 5 adds another base class Application Job for jobs

Rails 5 allows UUID as column type in create_join_table

Use ES2015 with Rails today - what & how

In this blogpost I present what is ES2015, what features does it bring to the language and why setting it up with Rails stack is hard - but possible.

ToyRobot

My implementation of ToyRobot pubzzle,

An interview with Mike Perham - Sidekiq creator

Rearmed Gem Released! - Includes Rails 4+ 'or' method

I just released my gem Rearmed. It is a collection of methods and monkey patches for Objects, Strings, Enumerables, Arrays, Hash, Dates, & Rails. One notable monkey patch it includes is an “or” method for Rails 4+. What makes this library different then other monkey patching libraries is that it uses opt-in monkey patching because you really shouldn’t be using methods you don’t know about anyways. https://github.com/westonganger/rearmed-rb