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local gems dependency structures
I wrote an article that digs in to the technical details and the gotchas of using a local gems dependency structure to incrementally design Ruby applications: http://teotti.com/create-dependency-structures-with-local-ruby-gems/
Upgrading to Ruby on Rails 5
Lugo Labs website is now running Rails 5.0.0.beta1 on production. The process was smooth overall, with some little tweaks. You might need to make your own tweaks to your apps, depending on the gems you’re using.
How To Parallelize Ruby HTTP Requests
It turns out that managing web requests is quite important when doing web development. A web application backed by an external or internal API can issue a lot of requests when rendering a seemingly simple web page. How those requests are made and in what order is very important. With improper parallelization, an end user’s entire experience can go from delightful to horrific in a matter of seconds. Event Machine can help make sure external requests are efficient and user experience remains great.
How to interact Instagram API in Rails
This article will show you step by step: http://goo.gl/meCD3m Tags: #rails #instagram #api
Announcing Lotus v0.6.0
ANN Lotus v0.6.0. Tons of assets features: helpers, precompilers (Sass, Less, ES6, JSX, CoffeeScript, Opal, etc..), compressors (YUI, UglifyJS2, Google Closure Compiler, and others). Fast deploys, Heroku support and Content Delivery Networks (CDN). Minor features: custom app initializers, new Rake tasks, destroy command, custom inflections and small fixes.
Learning by Small Things
How I discovered that, as experienced developers, our culture of over-engineering and big picture thinking can lead to simple problems throwing us off, and how they can be a great learning experience.
a href="https://github.com/mz026/hash_police">HashPolice - hash format checker/a>
Hash Police is a gem to check whether given two hashes are of the same format, with readable result format and API. It can be used in testing to make sure the api response JSON format is as expcted by using a sample hash and is easy to integrate into testing frameworks like RSpec.
Tuxedo: 150 LOC Implements Presenter Logic in Rails
Dress up a boring looking instance with a Tuxedo suite and you have something nice to look at. Tuxedo is a simple gem that allows you to wrap any ruby object in a presenter. It attempts to use as little black magic as possible, 100% tested and documented. Read more
Enumerators and Enumerable Methods in Ruby
Vince explains how Enumerators and Enumerable work in Ruby with an example of generating prime factors. [more inside]
Wye Tech News #6
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.
A Recipe to Store Capistrano’s Server Configs in YAML
A very basic yet effective recipe to extract your server’s details from the Capistrano config files and into a non-version-controlled YAML file. [more inside]
OSX 11.0.0 (shell scripts for bootstrapping new machines)
Beside the skills and experience you bring to a job, one of the most important assets in complimenting your abilities is your machine and the software configured on it. These OSX shell scripts make it possible to easily install and configure a new OS X machine with minimal effort. They are opinionated for my setup but easily customizable for your preferences. If nothing else, you might learn of new tools to add to your toolset. Enjoy!
On DataFrame datatype in Ruby
Here is a blog post ranting on DataFrame datatype, why Ruby needs it and why existing implementations are far from satisfactory.
Ruby’s “each_with_object” vs. “tap + each”
Why do many Rubyists prefer “each_with_object” and “tap + each” over explicitly returning objects? When the choice comes, which one should be preferred and why? Click to view difference in visuals and speeds of both. [more inside]
pstore_pp pretty-prints the contents of a PStore file as JSON
Given a PStore file database.pstore with a root ‘foo’ that has a value ‘bar’, and another root ‘some’ with the value ‘thing’, calling pstore_pp on it would yield the following result: [more inside]
15+ best resources for learning Ruby on Rails
What are the best resources help me lean quickly Ruby on Rails? This is a question which I asked myself when I begin learning Ruby on Rails. After a long time self-study and working with RoR, today I want to share some experience about awesome sites, blogs and books which I used to. Hope that they are useful for you. Read more: http://goo.gl/TxciZI
ETag caching gotcha in Roda + Nginx
Why ETag caching might work on your development machine but not in production in Roda application using Nginx as web server. http://masa331.github.io/2016/01/06/roda-etag-caching-gotcha.html
Photish - A simple photo collection website generator
Photish is a simple, convention based (but configurable) static photo site generator. https://github.com/henrylawson/photish
4 ways to filter has_many associations
Filtering has_many associations can be one of those problems which makes you want to do some extra reading to brush up on your SQL and ActiveRecord knowledge. http://ducktypelabs.com/four-ways-to-filter-has_many-associations/
Spina CMS - New update
It’s been a while since our last update. We’ve been working on some exciting stuff and I would like to show it to you. [more inside]
What's up with queues? Ruby + Redis
Just a simple primer on the basics of queueing. Feel free to suggest improvements and provide feedback! https://medium.com/when-code-explodes/what-s-up-with-queues-ruby-redis-c05311f33438#.lrng41qd2
Contextual validations with form objects
When you deal with complex forms The Rails Way is not enough. You have to introduce another abstraction for handling more sophisticated validations. http://blog.sundaycoding.com/blog/2016/01/08/contextual-validations-with-form-objects/
Is Rails 5 Ready? - Check the Status of Rails 5
A simple page that shows the status of the Rails milestones. http://solidfoundationwebdev.com/is_it_ready/rails