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ASP.NET to Rails - The Journey
A high level article that covers some of the unknowns if you want to convert from ASP.NET to Rails.
Include and Extend Basics
Watch it here: Include and Extend Basics
Brittle Code in Rails Projects
The Fishbone Diagram, Why-Why Diagram and How-How Diagram are extremely useful to solve problems. It can be used to analyze a problem in a systematic way and discuss the alternative solutions to any problem. You can use them with other developers to come up with better design for your software projects. Read about it here: Problem Solving Techniques for Developers
A Middleware Stack Without Rack
A brief examination of the Rack middleware stack, and how to apply it as a pattern to something outside of Rack or web request handling.
Jobless - generate your CV with Ruby
Jobless is a simple DSL written in Ruby for generating CVs. It generates HTML files, which can be easily converted to PDF format if needed.
Log File Rotation Using Logger
Log files can get pretty large if you leave them long enough. Here I describe how to setup log rotation using the ruby Logger. I find this contains the apps logic better than defining it in the OS’ log rotate. View the article here:
One Repo to Rule Them All
How keeping multiple Rails apps and gems in a single repo can make your life easier, by simplifying code re-use, testing, and pull requests.
Tutorial: How to Build a CMS in Ruby on Rails
I’ll try to show you how to build a flexible, reusable CMS engine using various features offered by Ruby on Rails and Postgres. Read more
football.json - Free open public domain football data in JSON incl. Premier League...
Hello, I’ve put together a new repo, that is, /football.json that offers (auto-)generated match schedules (fixtures and results) and club listings for the major football leagues e.g. English Premier League, Deutsche Bundesliga, Italian Seria A, etc. See the 2015-16 season folder for (static) JSON examples. No API key required ;-) All data public domain. Enjoy the beautiful game. Cheers. PS: Ruby works great for generating JSON; see the json.rb script for the code.
Ruby 2.2.2 Array Basics : Part 3
Ruby 2.2.2 array methods such as equal?, try_convert and []. Watch it here: here
Building a Ruby on Rails App Part 3: Importing book details from Amazon
The third instalment of our Building a Ruby on Rails series is now out. It was really interesting to fetch the book details from this vast API that is Amazon AWS using the amazon-ecs gem. We also used rmagick to fetch the book cover image from Amazon, resize it and store locally.
5 ways APIs drive business value
In the previous lesson of Build Less, But Better Software email course, we concluded that your software businesses should start with private APIs then pivot to partner and public APIs when you’re confident with your ability to keep supporting the API. In lesson 4, we’ll look at 5 ways APIs drive business value.
Deploy Your Rails to OpenShift
OpenShift is Red Hat’s Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that allows developers to quickly develop, host, and scale applications in a cloud environment, deploying your rails app to openshift is pretty easy.
Decontaminator - Oga-based HTML sanitizer
Altmetric open sourced a Ruby gem for sanitizing HTML inputs, which is based on the excellent Oga XML/HTML parser:
flexmock revival: flexmock 2.0 has been released !
Flexmock 2.0 has been released. Taking maintainership of a high-profile gem is a new thing for me …
EnumizeMongoid - The enum gem for Mongoid you've been waiting for
We felt that the existing enum gems for Mongoid were not good for us, so we’ve decided to implement our own. It does not do everything for you (no scopes, needs creation of enum type classes) but what it does is easy to use, very flexible, and consistent. Released to public as of today - EnumizeMongoid
Safe enums in Ruby
We’ve created a library which solves enum’s problem in Ruby for our project. The main idea of the library is to have safe enum values everywhere: in object attributes, direct values access and etc. I would appreciate to hear your feedback about it. Thanks!
fedux.org – A "proxy.pac" is your friend if you're a proxy-administrator
You can find quite a few IT infrastructures where an HTTP proxy is used to secure the access to the “World Wide Web” (WWW). In smaller company environments you can configure the proxy for each workstation manually. In larger environments you normally use a so called “proxy.pac” for this. This article gives you an introduction to “proxy.pac”-files.
Ruby Interview Questions : Include vs Extend
What is the difference between include and extend? How to implement extend with include? Watch the video here: Include and Extend
Commands, Services and Logic: An Action-Based Class Design for Non-Trivial Rails Apps
A great talk about class design for cleaner Rails Read more
awesome-rails-gem
A collection of awesome Ruby Gems for Rails development. Read more
3 steps to fix encoding problems in Ruby
You only really think about a string’s encoding when it breaks. When you check your exception tracker and see Encoding::InvalidByteSequenceError: "\xFE" on UTF-8
staring you in the face. When you have a bad encoding, how do you figure out what broke? And how can you fix it?
StackProf: The Holy Grail of Rails Application Profiling
Profiling Rails Applications in the past has been tricky, and running a profiler in Production has been a pipe dream - until StackProf. In StackProf: The Holy Grail of Rails Application Profiling, I walk thru the basic steps of setting up StackProf, interpreting the results and how to peer thru some of the noise StackProf generates.
What exactly are transactional emails?
In the first lesson of Sending Transactional Emails From Rails, we clarify the definition of transactional emails and why they are important to software/ecommerce businesses.
Cleaning up a feature spec
Writing fully integrated tests can be a point of contention testing, especially when it comes to writing Capybara test that need to wait JavaScript to load items. Read more