One Rails App With Many Databases

Scale an existing Ruby on Rails application by using multiple databases and engines:

Client-side Action Cable with Rails 5

Here is a gem that will allow the use of easy Action Cable protocol in native ruby apps:

Application Performance Monitoring with New Relic

Ensuring the performance of an application is as important as the application itself. And that can be done with New Relic which is a performance management system. It provides in-depth information about your Ruby on Rails application as it runs in production.

Free GitLab Pages w/ Static (Web)Site Builders e.g. Jekyll, Middleman, Nanoc, etc.

Hello, GitLab now offers free GitLab Pages that lets you build your (web)site with any static (web)site builder in ruby e.g. Jekyll, Middleman, Nanoc, and so on. See pages.gitlab.io or read “Hosting on GitLab.com with GitLab Pages” by Marcia Ramos to get started. News bytes via @statictimes - follow along for more news about all things static (is the new dynamic).

New Community Link-Logs Launched, Coders-Log.com

I really love RubyFlow and JSLive but they are only limited to Ruby and Javascript. I needed a place to put my Unix/Linux & Cordova/Ionic articles. I have released Coders-Log.com which currently provides the topics Unix and Cordova with more topics to be added on request. https://coders-log.com

Gem Denshobato - the easiest way to make messaging between models.

Denshobato is a Rails gem that helps models communicate with each other. It gives simple api for creating a complete conversation system, check it out - Github Repo: Denshobato

How To Monkey Patch A Class In Ruby

This article describes how to properly monkey patch classes in Ruby.

We Work With Ruby

We Work With Ruby is live.. Post Ruby, Rails jobs or create Ruby Developer profile and let companies find you..and it’s Free [more inside]

FictionBook parser / reader.

FB2 – FictionBook parser / reader. [more inside]

Ruby Plus Podcast 2

Check out the second episode of Ruby Plus Podcast

Ecto for Rails developers — The basics

How we introduced Elixir and Ecto into our Ruby stack.

Working with Heroku, Rails and Webpack

Deployment of a Rails app that uses Webpack to Heroku is tricky because it requires both Node.js and Ruby. After various unsuccessful attempts, I had a solution that worked without customizing Heroku buildpacks. I wrote a post on that:

Introducing The activerecord-collection_cache_key Gem

Thanks to Dan Drinkard… today we are releasing a backport gem of a new feature in Rails 5— cache keys for ActiveRecord collections. It tracks fairly closely with the implementation seen in the Rails source but has a few minor differences arising from support back to AR 3. We’ve certainly been missing this feature for a long time and hope it comes in handy.

Be lazy and don’t keep context in your head

A very short refactoring, illustrating how it’s better to write down context in code, than to remember it.

Realtime notifications on your desktop of your rails apps.

Receive realtime notifications on your local machine if something happens in your rails apps. Link:

Reading Rails

A series of blog posts that will be dealing with reading open sourced code available on github. Yup we are going to read the source code of the Ruby on Rails framework. Part 1 of the series.

Documenting your Rails API

This article is about producing documentation for your Rails API, what tools are available and how to think about it.

Ruby Frozen String Literals Do Not Improve Performance of My Rails Applications

Rails ApiController and Concerns

How I used Rails ActiveSupport::Concern to clean and structure the code of my rails-api-base Rails 5 RESTful api template, and how I tested it: post I and post II.

Picguard - The New Gem For Face Recognition & Image Processing

Hey, I would like to show you the latest Ruby gem released by developers in my company, Netguru. It utilizes Google Vision API to automatically recognize human faces in images (w.g. when an app uses avatars) or identify inappropriate (violent/adult) content. Check out more details: Netguru Presents: Picguard - Visual Content Processing In Rails

How to organize a meetup

Ever wondered what it’s like to organize a meetup? Want to organize your own meetup and see what it takes? I’ve been running the ruby user group Berlin (among other things) for 3+ years and wrote up my experience in a mini post series: “Before you start to organize a meetup”, “Defining the 5 basics of your meetup” and “Running a meetup”.

Some facts about the Ruby Hero awards

Now that the poll I had posted yesterday is winding down, here are a few facts explaining why I asked the question in the first place.

RubyMine 2016.1 is Out: Ruby 2.3, Rails 5, Better JavaScript, and More

We’re excited to announce RubyMine 2016.1, the first update in the series of releases planned for 2016 for our Ruby and Rails IDE.

Lessons Learned From 10 Years of Programming

My journey as a web developer started back in 2000 right at the age of 21 and I can clearly remember a certain characteristic of those days in terms of how they made me feel. The best term I could find to describe that feeling is… joy. Read more

How to set priorities in Rails 5 activejob

Activejob QueuePriority has been added in Rails 5 beta_1 release. Lets find out how to set priority in our Job class.