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Wye Tech News #5
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.
12th edition of RubyIssue(s)
This is the 12th episode of our guided tour through the Ruby universe of issues. In this episode you will read about issues from gems such as HTTP, Polo, Padrino and Diaspora. Bonus: Conference discount, check it out!
Simple ActiveRecord caching strategies
I just released active_cash which is a drop in module for caching AR objects. As of now only :existence strategy is supported but more interesting things will come over the next months..
Ruby's New &.!= Operator
Well, it’s actually two operators. Sue me. The 2.3.0 release of Ruby included the safe navigation operator, &.. It does the same thing as try! in Rails. You can chain method calls together and bail early if you hit a nil. In Ruby some things you don’t normally think of as method calls are in fact just that. For example, operators like !=. [more inside]
Dotfiles 19.0.0
I’ve always felt that reading/using other developer’s Dotfiles projects and maintaining your own is a great way to be leveling up as a developer. Today, I’ve released a new major version in case it is of value to others. Maybe you discover aspects of the project that speeds up your workflow or maybe you use it all. Either way, enjoy!
Netzke 1.0 has been released
After 7 years of development, the Netzke framework has been released to version 1.0. Netzke allows you to build complex one-page applications by writing little code, due to making use of client-server UI components. It is powered by Sencha Ext JS on the frontend and Ruby on Rails on the server. Version 1.0 has new and improved components, more polished API, many bug fixes, as well as better documentation and test coverage.
Refactoring in Ruby: Smelly Parameters Lists
In this article we will cover one of the simplest code smells - long parameters lists in your method signatures. Check it out here.
Testing EpicEditor with Capybara & RSpec
EpicEditor is a neat Markdown editor that uses nested iframes and can be embedded in Rails forms to replace textarea fields. Digging into these nested iframes to input text within a test can be a little tricky. Here’s how you can do it: https://eliotsykes.com/testing-epic-editor
Refinements in 2016
The Zucker gem has become the Sugar Refinery: A collection of nano refinements, including: Object#blank?, Float#same?, File.gsub, and Array#chain_map.
BlackHulk - Awesome Blog Engine for Developer
We’d like to share an awesome blog engine for developer. Your posts will be saved on a GitHub repository and BlackHulk will display on a web browser. [more inside]
Color Blind Test your Web Application
Did you know that about 8% of the male population is color blind? Why eliminate that much of a potential market for your Web apps? [more inside]
Rails DB updates
https://github.com/igorkasyanchuk/rails_db Happy New Year! Please welcome new version of Rails DB gem with some optimisations and bug fixes
CRF - Find repeated files Gem
I wrote my first gem called CRF, which finds repeated files in a given directory (and subdirectories). I would love to hear your opinions, suggestions and error reports! [more inside]
Simple Rust, From a Rubyists Perspective
A four-part blog series on solving Exercism’s anagram problem in Rust. Heavy comparisons between Ruby and Rust, since I’ve been a Rubyist for years.
Using RSpec Metadata
Not all tests are created equal. Here we examine patterns for using RSpec metadata for to test configuration on a per test, context, or even directory-level basis https://rossta.net/blog/using-rspec-metadata.html
The FILTER clause in Postgres 9.4
Postgres 9.4 was released in December 2014 adding the FILTER clause to aggregate functions and this clause is quite useful when you want to count or sum specific records when executing group by. Read more!
Ruby String Formatting
Want some zero-padding with that burger? Read this tutorial to learn how to do that and more. http://www.blackbytes.info/2012/01/ruby-string-formatting/
Introducing Assets For Lotus
Introducing assets features: helpers, preprocessors, EcmaScript 6, deployment, checksums, CDN, and third party gems! Out in two weeks with v0.6.0.
Using Sidekiq across different applications
In this blog post, I describe a simple technique for how to continue working with Sidekiq when you’re splitting up your monolith into multiple different applications. [more inside]
State of the 2016 Rails Stack
What’s a Rails stacks look like in the wild these days? Most popular Rails version? Most popular Ruby? Is Delayed Job still hanging on? We combed thru the data to see the most popular libraries powering Rails apps heading into the New Year.
A little string formatting tip and how we handle dynamic email subjects
If you are used to format string via % operator you should be careful with dynamic content evaluation. Here is how I handle special cases when using dynamic e-mail subjects.
Sometimes Code Makes Me Sad - This Is How I Get Over It
It’s called code envy http://bit.ly/1QVjiDr
2015 Roundup - Inch, What a Year
Part 1 of my 2015 Roundup: http://trivelop.de/2015/12/29/roundup-inch-ci-what-a-year/
What to look for in a Rails expert
Should your Rails developer be certified? Should they have multiple degrees? Here’s what you should look for when hiring a Rails expert for your product team.