Idempotent seed files

A blog post on how to make your Rails seed files more reusable by making them idempotent

[Book Review] Clean Code Book of Robert C. Martin Series

Clean Code is a awesome book which every Software Engineer needs to read. Read more. Hope this article is useful for you.

New tty-color module

A small module tty-color for detecting terminal color capabilities.

Lotus Framework needs legal advice

There is a potential problem with Lotus’ naming. The author is looking for (free) legal advice. Any help is appreciated. Source: Tweet Read more

Lessons Learned from Building a Ruby Gem API

I wrote a new article on things I learned while building a Ruby Gem API. Hope you enjoy!

Useful RSpec matchers that you may not be using

Just sharing a couple RSpec matchers that I think are very useful but people doesn’t seem to know they even exist: Useful RSpec matchers that you may not be using

Object#tap: a better use.

My opinion of the typical use of Object#tap, it’s original intended use, and a couple more handy uses too.

3 Quick Tips to Speed Up Page Loads

Let’s find three low hanging fruits and quickly fix performance issues to speed up page load in a Rails app. Read 3 Tips to Speed Up the Page Loads in Rails App

Passages Rails Engine

Routing in the Ruby on Rails world can, at times, be a tad confusing. The official Rails guide is very helpful for the basics; but, as an application grows, it can become hard to remember specific details about every single route. The Passages Rails Engine was created to help this concern.

How swappable storage and fakes lead to cleaner, more reliable tests

resque_unit overrode part of Resque’s API to change how jobs were queued. This was great for an initial implementation. But, as reimplementations of an API tend to do, it fell behind. It got way more complicated. Luckily, there’s a better way to solve this problem.

The Rubyist's guide to writing command-line apps

In order to write a first-class command-line app, you have to understand a lot of details like arguments, environment variables, STDIN/STDOUT, and more. This post is my humble attempt to cover most of these details and bring together everything you need to know in one place. http://blog.honeybadger.io/writing-command-line-apps-in-ruby/

Must-Read: 10 Ruby on Rails Posts You Can't Miss

List of Netguru’s best and most popular posts from 2015 Read more

New features in Rails 5.0

Here’s a quick look at the new features introduced in Rails 5, including ActionCable, the new Attributes API, changes to ActiveRecord and more: Read more

Understanding Mutable Objects & Frozen Strings

What does it mean for an object to be mutable? Don’t let that fancy word confuse you.

Pronto now has runners for JSCS and Tailor (the Swift one)!

Pronto performs quick automated code reviews with the help of various analysis tools (RuboCop, Brakeman, Flay, etc.) by checking only the introduced changes. Over the last month, a couple more runners were written for it. One for JSCS, JavaScript Code Style checker and another for Tailor, Swift static analyser and lint tool. Check out Pronto and the list of runners it now has.

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 !=. Read more

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:

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.

Improved test runner in Rails 5