HOWTO parse HTML with Ruby and Nokogiri

Parse and extract data from HTML documents with Ruby and Nokogiri:

OpenCommerce Conf – the first Spree-community event since SpreeConf 2014

Join us in New York City on the 28-29th of June: http://opencommerceconf.org/ [more inside]

How To Keep Your Controllers Thin With Form Objects

[Manga-Downloadr] Improving the Crystal/Ruby from bursts to pool stream

Yesterday I implemented and benchmarked a new version of my Manga Downloader (use case for a crawler/scrapper) in Crystal, MRI Ruby and JRuby against by more efficient Elixir version. Today I improved the algorithm to use ThreadPool in Ruby/JRuby and a “Fiber Pool” in Crystal. Check out if we got closer to Elixir this time.

Do you get production error page in development?

Short story about me not reading error message AKA what happens if you create an empty translation file in you config/locales/ directory.

How we do visual regression testing

A writeup of how and why Friday decided to create a visual regression testing tool using Rails (hint: so it integrates neatly without our cucumber tests). [more inside]

geo_coord -- simple useful "geographic coordinates" abstraction

Geo::Coord is a basic class representing [latitude, longitude] pair and incapsulating related concepts and calculations. It tries to create most reasonable and useful interface while having no dependencies and very small amount of clean code.

Exploring Cryptography Fundamentals in Ruby

My first guest post on Sitepoint explains the basics of cryptography with Ruby examples.

The Penguin That Can't Fly

A short story about OOP, interfaces and (Ruby) soft typing.

KISSing on Rails

My opinion to the current discussions about Rails: [more inside]

Benefits of Ruby on Rails and Why Rails? – Part I

Rails 5 provides finish option for find_in_batches

Get your gem as RPM easily

Have you ever wanted to get your gem packaged as RPM? It is now pretty easy with Copr! [more inside]

Ask Sidekiq Creator any question!

[Manga-Downloadr] Porting from Crystal to Ruby (and a bit of JRuby)

In my path to learn more about Crystal I wrote yet-another-MangaReader-downloader. The code is over here. And then I decided to port it over to Ruby to see how Crystal and Ruby compare. The new Ruby version of the downloader is here. And I wrote a detailed analysis of this experience. I also benchmarked the Crystal, MRI Ruby and JRuby with this scrapper/crawler use case. Check out my new post about it.

A Quest for Better Specs: Prefer Self-Containment

Join me as I walk you through potential problems with the RSpec mindset, and what we should do to make our specs more readable and maintainable. [more inside]

[Screencast] Client Side Validations

Give early warning to users of form errors before they submit. With client side validations, the user can correct any errors prior to submitting the form.

The problem with your large Rails app isn't Rails

It pains me to see the blame Rails gets for messy large codebases. This post provides a somewhat alternative idea of how we got into this state, and how we may prevent our mistakes from occurring again – https://www.twnsnd.com/posts/the_problem_with_rails_isnt_rails_itself.html

Integrate Brakeman in your workflow

How to integrate Brakeman into your daily workflow:

Active Record vs Ecto: A Tale of 2 ORMs (video)

Great RailsConf 2016 video on ORM design, Elixir / Phoenix and Rails. Enojy!

Extending Vault CLI with some Ruby love

Extending the basic Vault CLI using Ruby with Thor/Hirb When using Vault you only have access to basic commands, I wrote a CLI tool that extends the Vault CLI to include some useful commands. Ever wanted to show a tree representation of your secret structure? Or just add a secret?

Hyde Press - New (Free) Book - Octopod - Radio Show Podcast Publishing w/ Jekyll

Hello, I’ve added the Octopod User’s Guide by Stefan Haslinger et al to the Hyde Press Bookshelf. Happy Podcasting w/ Octopod (and Ruby). Cheers.

4 Ways To Avoid Monkey Patching

If you’re considering monkey patching but you know it’s a bad idea, here are four alternatives, in order from most preferable to least preferable.

A conversational introduction to rom-rb

Good intro with a preview of the upcoming features. Check it out!

Ruby Podcast Episode 6

Listen to the latest Ruby and Rails related news, checkout the Ruby podcast episode 6.