Mastering Ruby Regular Expressions

Learn to use regular expressions in Ruby with this tutorial. Many examples are provided. Please share if you find it useful :)

Rails Multi-Database Best Practices Roundup

The goal is simple! To give you the tools you need to keep your Rails application running smoothly when connecting to multiple databases.

The Computer Science Behind Postgres Indexes

Indexes are powerful and important. Pat Shaughnessy shows us how they work and discovers the computer science behind Postgres indexes. Read more

whatson gem - Use $ rubyconf to list upcoming Ruby conferences on command line

Hello, I’ve put together a Ruby gem, that is, whatson, that lets you list all upcoming Ruby conferences on the command line. Type in your shell: $ rubyconf The command will fetch the awesome ruby events page (from the intertubes) and print out: Jul/1+2 - RubyMotion Conference - #inspect @ Paris, France; Jul/20 - Brighton Ruby Conference @ Brighton, East Sussex, England ... and so on. Cheers.

Using the Rails 5 Attributes API today, in Rails 4.2

Rails 5 is going to have a great new Attributes API, but you can use it already in Rails 4.2. If you’ve ever tried doing something as simple as overriding attribute accessors and found yourself chasing down and plugging endless edge cases, this post is for you.

Ruby Raven

Ruby Raven an iOS app for List of Ruby Conferences. Read more

Integrating Braintree payments with rails

ROM 0.8.0 Released

You can read the official announcement

Decorators in Ruby

Ruby’s low-overhead metaprogramming facilities make it easy to create elegant APIs with minimal effort. As a testament to its power, I can say with a high degree of confidence that all of your favorite Ruby libraries leverage metaprogramming in one way or another. Read more

Pongal Gem Released

Pongal is a valid US state generator that can be used in Geocoding applications. https://rubygems.org/gems/pongal The source code is on Bitbucket https://bitbucket.org/bparanj/pongal

Holycorn: PostgreSQL multi-purpose Ruby data wrapper

I have just released Holycorn. It is a Foreign Data Wrapper for PG that uses Ruby (actually, mruby) as its data provider: write a Ruby script, and select its data transparently from a PG table!

Render Markdown views with Redcarpet and Pygment in Rails

This Lugo Labs Tutor tutorial shows a way how to create a Rails renderer for Markdown so we can use it in views as we do when we write HTML. The view will need to support all Markdown syntax and Pygments, to prettify any code we have in the view. The code should be wrapped within a tag decorated with a class specifying the language in which the code is written, following standard Markdown syntax.

Ruby Productivity Scripts

As developers, we are so busy that we don’t have time to think about the amount of repetitive tasks we do on a daily basis. So, why not automate repetitive tasks and learn Ruby at the same time? Read the first article in this series: Clone a Git Project

Ilya Grigorik lays out HTTP/2 on The Changelog

On episode 161 of The Changelog, Ruby Hero Ilya Grigorik joins us to cover everything around HTTP/2 — the spec, HTTP/1 history, SPDY, binary framing layer, the semantics of HTTP/2, pipelining, multiplexing, header compression (HPACK), server push, TLS, “time to glass”, upgrading, adoption, support and more!

Have you bought your ticket to eurucamp yet?

eurucamp is one of Europe’s biggest ruby conferences, and it’s also, in our humble opinion, one of the best! If you haven’t bought your ticket yet, there’s still time. Tickets went on sale last weekend! http://tickets.eurucamp.org/ Read more

How to use Basic Authentication with the Ruby Rest-Client gem

If you’ve ever tried to use basic auth with the rest-client gem, you know it’s not really obvious how to do it. Here is a quick writeup I did to hopefully save the next dev an hour of fiddling:

Ruby Refinements - Not quite ready for production

Ruby’s refinements may lead to odd and unexpected behavior. Here are some of the limitations I’ve found Ruby refinements have as of Ruby 2.2.2 [READ MORE]

Hello Sinatra in a Container

Docker Basics : Running a Hello World Sinatra App in a Container

A cookie based approach to handling guest users in Rails

Check out this post I wrote on implementing a database-less and polymorphic approach to handling guest users in Ruby on Rails using the cookie or session store.

Inch CI: Year One

Inch CI celebrated its first anniversary this week and I wrote a blog post about it: Inch CI: Year One

JS Live: It's RubyFlow, but for JavaScript

If you dig JavaScript, Angular, React, Ember, Node, and all the rest, check out JavaScript Live - it’s a slightly jazzed up version of the RubyFlow software (backports will come in due course) for JavaScript developers :-)

Dokaz: check code fragments inside your Markdown

I’ve recently released dokaz gem, which is quick-and-simple way to run all code blocks inside your GitHub Markdown files (Readme or Wiki) and see, if they are working and what they output.

JavaScript + Ruby on Rails: 7 Must-Read Resources

Hey folks, Here’s a list of 7 learning resources for those of you who want to get to know JavaScript better. There’s something both for beginners and more experienced developers. Enjoy! 7 Must-Read Resources on JavaScript for Ruby on Rails

Super-fast string matching using Aho-Corasick

We’ve got a use case for finding occurrences any of a large (100k+) dictionary of strings in a piece of text, so we’ve published an implementation of the Aho-Corasick bibliographic search algorithm which improves a little bit on some of the other available implementations – it might be useful if you have a similar requirement!

Finnaly figured out how to run single example easily with Guard Minitest/Spec

EDIT Looks like minitest-focus is the way to go here. Can’t believe that I haven’t heard of this until now! Read more