You don't need to wait for your backend: Decisions and Consequences

Choosing to not wait for a backend while processing user actions on frontend has interesting consequences. We’ve made an analysis of pros and cons of two most common approaches. Interested? Take a look here!

How to Write Command-Line Applications in Ruby with GLI

I just published a post about writing command-line applications in Ruby with GLI. It allows to increase effectivity of your work as a software developer. Take a look here »

Ruby: The Case for Case

A more in-depth look at using case switching in Ruby.

MagicCloud - Wordle-like word cloud

New gem, named magic_cloud, recently released. It allows to draw dense colourful word clouds from weighted words, similar to Wordle. It’s pretty stable, though not that fast.

Infinity in Ruby

Have you ever run into an infinite value in Ruby? This post takes a look at how Ruby handles infinity. […continue reading…]

A faster way to cache complicated data models

When your data model gets complicated, and your APIs hit that sad 1 second response time, there’s usually an easy fix: :includes. But if you want to cache your responses, you can only fetch one object at a time, and you can’t get all the benefits of :includes. So how do you get a fast response for your cached objects, and still load the objects that aren’t in the cache, quickly?

An excellent Angular Rails tutorial

In my office we are using AngularJs and this seems to be a very good tutorial for Angular Rails

Hoboken: A Sinatra Project Generator

Generate Sinatra projects quickly, yet still maintain the advantage of flexibility that using Sinatra provides. Read more.

Bundle Up & Let Your Objects Do the Freezing: Frozen Hashes

Have you ever tried to modify a frozen object? Or have you always what a frozen object is, exactly? This post explores how frozen objects in Ruby can be dangerous, and why they’re useful.

Open source as a marketing strategy

There’s a misconception that contributing to open source software is a labor of love, and that there’s no money to be made. Well, that’s just wrong because open source software is a low-cost marketing strategy that gives you freedom to monetize in other ways.

The deep basics of Ruby blocks, procs, and lambdas

A full understanding of blocks and procs, and the differences with lambdas is helpful when squeezing the last bit of beloved Ruby expressiveness. Read it!

How much horsepower are you leaving on the table because of bad GC settings?

The MRI 2.2 garbage collector has gaines some significant improvements over its predecessors. There is now much more to tune and optimize for. The default settings are rarely optimal for an app, however, and gaining knowledge of the settings is a pita. Read more

Make Capistrano Beautiful with Airbrussh

The airbrussh gem is a replacement log formatter for SSHKit that makes your Capistrano output much easier on the eyes. Just add it to your Capfile and enjoy concise, useful log output that is easy to read. Watch an animated GIF demo.

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Video Tutorial: Secure Your Cookies

This tutorial goes over how to better Secure Your Cookies for your Ruby on Rails app.

Extract a service object in any Ruby framework

We often talk about extracting service objects in the Ruby community. Very often it’s in the context of Rails apps. However, the technique is very good in any situation where you deal with a framework (“they call you”). Read more

Use your gettext translations in your React components

Expose gettext translations in your Rails app to your frontend with i18next and use them in your React components.

Refactoring: Two Ways -- Design is Refactoring

A post on two approaches you can take when refactoring: the easy way and the hard way.

Introducing Yesql for Ruby using ROM

A fresh new adapter for ROM has been released that allows you to use plain SQL in a similar way as Clojure’s Yesql. You can read about it right here.

ProfileIt.io: profile your Rails app from Chrome

Just launched ProfileIt.io, a lightweight gem+Chrome Extension for profiling Rails apps. ProfileIt.io captures SQL queries, line numbers of slow method calls, and XHR + redirect requests. Production-safe.

API authentication in Rails with devise_token_auth

Just posted a writeup on how to add Token-based API authentication to your Rails app, including some gotchas I found while integrating the devise_token_auth to the menudiar.io site. Any other token auth solutions you know about?

Integrate web templates in Rails application

In this blog I talked about how to integrate web templates from wrapbootstrap into rails application

View components in Rails

I looked at different options for implementing view components in Rails. The article discusses Arbre, Cells and vanilla Rails options such as partials. Read more

Splitting Rails router info Separate files

Have you ever struggled with long routes.rb file? Now you don’t have to! Read more

Gotcha with after_commit callback in Rails

Make sure that if the code inside transaction is not dependent on result of after_commit callback.