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20 years of Ruby with RubyMine blog
As hard to believe as it is, 20 years ago the first public version of Ruby saw the light of day. Ruby 0.95 was announced December 21st, 1995. To look back on the journey of Ruby, we’ve come up with a series of humorous cartoons. We invite you to celebrate the anniversary with us.
Composing Microscopic Rails Views With Cells
So much of the time, our Rails views are the first files to devolve into a complete and utter mess, with monstrous conditional logic that is easy to lose track and control of. The cells gem gives us an easy solution to this problem by allowing us to create a Ruby object that has a single responsibility: rendering a template. This blog post explores the cells view models, and the different ways we can implement them in our Rails applications.
When to choose Elixir over Ruby for 2016 projects?
A highly opinionated post this time on picking your stack for 2016 projects: When to choose Elixir over Ruby for 2016 projects?
Multiline strings in Ruby 2.3 - The Squiggly Heredoc
Ruby finally has an acceptable way of writing multiline strings - no more messy gsubing, bad indentation or monkeypatches - meet the Squiggly Heredoc!
Introduction to Rails 5 Attributes
Shortly after the tenth anniversary of Ruby on Rails 1.0, Rails 5.0 Beta has been announced. While the main character of this release was without a doubt ActionCable, other really great features have made their debut.
Wye Tech News #3
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.
How does ARGV get set in Ruby?
You probably know that Ruby sticks any command-line arguments into a global array called ARGV. But why the heck is it called ARGV? It’s an interesting history lesson that highlights Ruby’s origins in C. http://blog.honeybadger.io/what-does-argv-mean-in-ruby/
Protozaur. CSS framework for RoR
I happy to introduce small but very usefull tool for building prototypes. Protozaur is a set of CSS classes which can be used to increase productivity when you working with RoR frontend. Learn more about Protozaur.CSS
Installing Ruby on OS X, Ubuntu and Windows
In this course I will teach you how to install Ruby on OS X, Ubuntu and Windows, using best practices to customize your development environment and giving a quick overview of the most popular code editors. http://davidmles.com/blog/installing-ruby/
Ruby can be Faster with a Bit of Rust
Wouldn’t it be cool if you could write C extensions without having to manage memory? What if it was even faster than C? The Rust language might be up your alley. You can read more at SitePoint.
Give the gift of 'Learn Ruby on Rails' for free
Know someone who wants to learn Ruby on Rails? Holidays are a great time to begin. This book is called, “The best Rails book for beginners,” and it is FREE on Amazon from now until December 25. Give it as a gift. Or get it for your own reference library.
Infoboxer 0.2: Effective Wikipedia data extraction
New version of infoboxer gem has been released. Infoboxer targets information extraction from MediaWiki-based wikis. New version includes ability to fetch categories and new interactive console.
The Best Picks from Ruby Day Conf 2015
Conference sum up by Netguru developers, along with links, presentations and incoming trends. [more inside]
New API load stressing/testing framework
I build a load stressing and testing/measuring framework on Ruby (mostly) for APIs. Take a look here! It uses underneath http gem which means it supports anything this gem supports. Also, you can customize the urls using pros/lambdas and have different strategies when sending the requests making it super easy to create any testing scenario.
Know who your Rails developer is NOT
It’s easy to forget, when hiring an expert, that they only specialize in one thing. Here are a few things your RoR expert is NOT, and what you shouldn’t expect their help with.
Unlocking the ‘Devise’ Gem
Devise is a powerful & flexible authentication solution for Rails. It is completely based on MVC structure and allows to have multiple models signed in at the same time. Read full article at RailsCarma Blog.
Email address validation and encodings
RFCs are difficult to read and understand, and can be ambiguous at times. Theory is one thing, and implementation is another thing. In this blog post my focus are some interesting details about email addresses.
New Gem: ActiveJob-Cron
ActiveJob-Cron lets you have recurrent job when using ActiveJob in a very simple way. However, for now it only has very simple functionality with some known issues, so I am also looking for any contributions!
In-Memory Fake Adapters
There are two common techniques for specifying in a test the behavior of a 3rd party system: [more inside]
Ruby on Rails 4.2 book update and XMAS special
I updated the content of my Ruby on Rails 4.2 book. I wanted to update it to the latest Ruby (2.2.x) and Rails (4.2.x) version before the 5.0 release. In that process I changed a lot of code examples to make the ebook better readable on small devices. I did the same with the text which means less text which gets to the point more quickly. As a christmas special I set the price to 0,99 USD: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00YPU5MGS
How to access the Google Analytics API with Ruby
How to access the Google Analytics API with Ruby. A guide showing you how to access the Google Analytics API using the OAuth 2.0 flow for web applications and the google-api-client gem.
Reguler Expression
Here is my first blog.. Please check it out. http://botreetechnologies.com/regular-expression-basics/