Simple translator for RoR locale YML files

Locales translator with machine-translation ability (free Yandex.Translate API). It is here

Ruby Network Programming

Join me on this tour of ruby network programming to learn the basics, and start talking to other servers and clients using Ruby! Share it with your friends if you like it :) Blog post:

Tackling Those Tests, Part 3: Testing Made Easy With Gems

Testing can be really hard. But you can make it easier on yourself by using the right gems! This blog post explains how to implement the shoulda-matchers and database_cleaner gems, which will help keep your tests DRY and your databases clean.

What Overcommit can do for you?

A brief explanation on how to use the gem Overcommit and how it will help you in your everyday development methods. Check it out here.

Customize RSpec’s output for fun and profit

Ever wondered how you can customize RSpec’s output? I wrote a blog post explaining the details of RSpec formatters, how to write a custom formatter and integrating it in a Rails application. You can check it out here.

swift_client v0.0.8 released

The swift_client gem is a really small and powerful alternative to interact with the OpenStack Swift Object Storage.

Testing Neo4j Rails apps and gems

Over the last few weeks I’ve been working on a Sunspot_Neo4j gem, but found it difficult to test that it was working across versions of Neo4j. I ended up creating the Neo4j_Test_Server to do just that without having to setup a bunch of dedicated Neo4j instances. Here’s how.

Infinities - INFINITY ∞ for the infinitely lazy

Annoyed by typing Float::INFINITY? Wish you could just use the word or symbol instead? The infinities gem should do the trick.

Don’t Use “#” In the Paperclip Gem

I’ve learned a whole lot more about ImageMagick commands last week than I ever really wanted to know. The problem was that our uploaded images were having content cropped off the top, bottom, and sides. Like many folks in the Rails world, we pass our attachments through Paperclip to handle all of the nitty gritty resizing operations. I was interested in understanding how we could prevent our content from being cropped…:

Awesome Rubies (Compilers, Interpreters, Virtual Machines, Parsers, etc.) List

Hello, I’ve started yet another awesome collection on GitHub over at the Planet Ruby. What’s news? The awesome-rubies repo collects Ruby compilers, interpreters, virtual machines, parsers, docu generators, static code analyzers, type annotations, version managers, etc. Anything missing? Contributions welcome. Cheers.

Fixing a slow Rails development server

We recently helped one of our clients speed up their Rails app in development. Please join us on this journey towards better performance, developer-happiness, and saving $$$!

Newscombinator

Reading a lot of news-sites is tiring. Being top-informed on Reddit, Ycombinator, Makernews, Datatau, Coinspotting and many more has become a hassle. The Newscombinator combines all those sites and grabs it from a publicly available API. Read more

Better Persistence with ROM

The blog post of Adam Hawkins with an example of using Ruby Object Mapper. Read more

Setting up Atom for Ruby and Rails Development

After using Sublime and Vim for several years, I switched to Atom a year ago, and have not missed one feature from the other two so far. Here are the packages, preferences, and tips I recommend for getting the most out of this great open source editor. Read more

ActiveRecord Strict Validations, Minitest, and Shoulda

Are you using Thoughbot’s shoulda gem with Minitest? How about strict validations in ActiveRecord? I think these are great things to add to your Rails backpack of tools. Here’s why.

Your template language is killing the web.

I wrote an article about how template languages increase complexity when building for the modern web.

Slack on Rails

How to add a Slack integration to your Rails apps. (Spoiler alert: it’s super easy.) Read more

Some lessons learned using the Google Directory SDK Ruby client

Here are some lessons I learned during a recent project that hit the Google Directory API using the google-api-client gem.

Can you say this is TDD fanboyism ?

A rant about tests

simple rspec helpers that make testing APIs more fun

rspec-api_helper was just released and helps you test your JSON API without parsing and scraping your own API endpoints.

Updates to Rails Composer

An option to disable Rails Turbolinks, installation of the Bundler gem (because RVM no longer installs it automatically), fixed errors with Haml and Slim, and added the rails-stripe-membership-saas example application. See the blog post about Updates to Rails Composer for details.

Splitting your app into smaller apps using RabbitMQ

After many years of development, we realized our app had become too complex, causing development, testing and debugging to be much harder - to solve this problem we used RabbitMQ, moving some functionality outside of main app:

Released AS::Duration

I’ve just released AS::Duration, which is an extraction of ActiveSupport::Duration. If you’re in a non-Rails project, and you want the lovely 2.days.ago and 1.month.from_now syntax (but without having to pull in ActiveSupport), this gem is for you!

Lex tool in Ruby released!

I’ve released lex, a Ruby implementation of GNU lex tool. I’m looking forward to community contributions in implementing lexers for the many languages inside the lexers.

simple thread pool in ruby