Integrate bootstrap 4 with Rails 5

Checkout sample Rails 5 project that Integrates bootstrap 4 with Rails 5

Rails 4.2.6 and 4.1.15 have been released!

The Ruby on Rails team has announced new versions of Rails.

Suppress save events in Rails 5

You can now suppress save events in Rails 5. Read more

SpreadsheetArchitect v1.2.0 Released

SpreadsheetArchitect lets you turn any activerecord relation or ruby object collection into a XLSX, ODS, or CSV spreadsheet.

Rails 5 and Docker: Lessons Learnt

With the modern DevOps development pipelines and bleeding edge container technologies build around Docker, it is relatively easy to scale and run Rails applications in production on any cloud; private, public or even hybrid. On paper. The fact is, Rails is not the easiest framework to run as containers.

Guide to Finding Talented Ruby on Rails Developers

Top 5 Tools to Expand Utility of Ruby on Rails

Here are 5 best tools to expand the utility of Ruby on Rails . These tools will effectively make the platform better and user friendly.

Introducing has_reindexable_associations gem for Elasticsearch

This gem enables automatic Elasticsearch reindexing of ActiveRecord associations. One can keep specified associations in sync with ease using async reindexing.

fec - Terminal utils to change multiple file's extension

Rename all files extension inside folder (including recursive folder).

Symbol to_proc Hack

Learn how to bind variables to a block variable at run-time by studying the Symbol to_proc Hack

Introducing URN gem

Ruby library to validate and normalize URNs according to RFC 2141. https://github.com/altmetric/urn

My New Favorite Enumerable Method

In this post I share some of my favorite Enumerable methods with examples.

The Case Against Dynamic Typing

An argument for dynamic typing is that by not enforcing the types of a function’s parameters, the function becomes more generalized, and thus more flexible and reusable. The author argues that this flexibility versus automatically-verifiable correctness of the system is not a trade-off we need to make. Read more

PostgreSQL and Rails, sitting in a tree: working with huge datasets

A post on working with large hierarchical structures in a Ruby on Rails + PostgreSQL application. The author does an overview of the most popular patterns, benchmarks them, and proves why the Closure Tree pattern, while not being very popular, sometimes outperforms the competition by far. Read more

Learn to leverage log tags for debugging rails applications

Rails 5 switches from strong etags to weak etags

Denshobato Gem Released! + Tutorial

Denshobato - is a Rails gem that helps models communicate with each other. It gives simple api for creating a complete conversation system. Read more

Building a microservice in Ruby

How can we build a microservice in Ruby? In this post I describe the way we built a simple mailer service with RabbitMQ and sneakers.

New aruba release - v0.14.0

I just released a new version of aruba 0.14.0. See our History.md. Alternatively have a look at the diff on Github.

Surrogate WebSockets Alongside Rails

Parker Selbert is showing how to leverage Elixir’s productive tooling to build out a WebSocket microservice. Read the article here.

Dependency Inversion Principle

Learn Dependency Inversion Principle by examples.

Java for Rubyists

Mark Phelps approaches Java from a Rubyist’s view. Why learn this less enjoyable-looking language and how do you get started?

Easy and active-record-like interface to deal with http json services

Master microservice architectures! Access data provided by http json services with ease. Just like using Active-Record:

Refactoring in Ruby: Primitive Obsession

How to refactor your way out of the primitive obsession code smell, with extensive examples in Ruby. Check it out here.

Ruby Developer - Essential Bash commands

Most of us, Ruby programmers, know Ruby pretty well, but how well do you know your console. In this series we dive into improving your bash skills.