Integration Tests for Chef-Driven Infrastructure with Test Kitchen

Learn how you can easily introduce and automate the process of testing your production infrastructure in your development environment or as part of CI process with virtual machine or Docker. Read the article.

Redis cluster. Quick overview

Set Up Sublime Text 3 for Ruby Development

Sublime Text 3 (currently in beta, but stable!) is a powerful editor with good out-of-the-box support for Ruby. For example, did you know that ST3 has built-in source code indexing? Learn about this hidden (?) feature and take your Sublime setup to the next level with a curated list of Ruby-themed packages, commands, key mappings, and recommendations.

Data modelling with Redis and Ohm

The Ohm – Redis combination allows us to model our data in a super-fast way, leveraging loads of powerful NoSQL features with a touch of relational goodness and all from within plain old Ruby with the Ohm gem

Build a Pocket Clone: Part 6

The Last Post in the series

Emulating Smalltalk’s Conditionals in Ruby

I’ve just released a gem for handling Ruby conditionals in block syntax

Ruby’s Partition for Enumerables

I recently found out about the partition method you can call on enumerables, I thought it was pretty cool so I wrote about it.

Minimalist library for build factories

With just a few lines of code(36 LOC), Fabricas helps you to build factories, there are no monkey-patch to any class or object and is very useful when you need to build objects fast, also is framework agnostic

Working With MongoDB's Aggregation Pipelines in Ruby

MongoDB’s aggregation pipelines let you perform data aggregations similar to SQL’s “group by” statements. The Mongoid and moped gems let you easily use the aggregation pipelines in Ruby.

Truth tables as Ruby Hashes

Capture complex logic in a truth table and use a Ruby Hash to implement it

Voice Computing in Ruby

If you’ve ever dreamed of having your own voice-controlled personal assistant, this well-documented and configurable project will get you started.

INTEGRATE "GEO_PATTERN"-GEM INTO MIDDLEMAN

You may have heard about the “geo_pattern”-gem. This article describes how you can integrate it easily into your middleman-website.

Fixing the "Blank Text" Problem

Text is almost always the single most important asset on the page, and developers need control over how and when it’s rendered.

Dig into RubyGems internals to find bottlenecks

In this intensive post we open up RubyGems to follow a speed bug report to see exactly why Is RubyGems slow?.

Create your own custom-built Ruby applications… automatically!

Every time you work on your own projects, you get tripped up on seemingly simple things. What if you could create your own custom-built Ruby applications automatically? - RubySteps

GrapeAPI: Basic Exceptions Handling

Why bother handling the exceptions? Well, I believe it’s basically for DRYing up things especially if these exceptions in general are happening very often in your API.

Interview with Aaron Patterson during RubyConfIndia

Interview with Aaron , about how he got started with Ruby, what tools he uses to work/profile issues, contributing to Open Source, and much more.

RSpec cheatsheet as a Rails app: Learn RSpec from a model codebase

An RSpec cheatsheet in the form of a Rails app. Learn how to test Rails apps from a model codebase. Originally written for devs-in-training, the example specs demonstrate how to use RSpec. See spec/support for walkthroughs on configuring popular testing gems, including DatabaseCleaner, Capybara, FactoryGirl and many more. The README links to useful cheatsheets and API docs https://github.com/eliotsykes/rspec-rails-examples

Gem of Week #15 - beerdb gem - serving a Guinness Irish Stout as JSON w/ Ruby

Hello, over at the Planet Ruby the Gem of the Week series continues with #15 - beerdb - that ships with a ready-to-use database schema (in SQL) and models such as - surprise, surprise - Beer, Brewery, Brand and friends (using the ActiveRecord object-relational mapper machinery). Full article. Cheers. Prost. Kampai.

Gem for define callbacks

A minimalist and framework-agnostic gem for build hooks and define before/after callbacks in your ruby methods

Top 10 famous websites built with Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails has come a long way - it’s amazing how popular it has become in recent years. Read more

Signing a user in from a worker

An interesting approach if you want your web app to scale :)

How to debug Ruby performance problems in production

A lot of performance problems can be found and fixed during development. But what about those slowdowns that only show up in production? Do you ship tons of tiny “maybe this fixes it” commits to see what sticks? You don’t have to ruin your code to analyze it. Instead, try rbtrace-ing it.

Documenting Your Code

Consider both points of view in the debate on documenting code and how you may do it with ease if you’d like to.

A little primer on Singleton Classes

I have some articles lined up where I look into wacky facets of Ruby, and somehow singleton classes pop up in more than one of them so here’s a super quick, bite-sized refresher on why they’re awesome and used more than you think.