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Benchmarking Rack Middleware
How do you benchmark rack middleware? Well read this blog post then go make your code faster.
Introducing "The Bike Shed", a web development podcast from thoughtbot
We’re excited to announce the release of The Bike Shed, hosted by Sean Griffin and Derek Prior. It is a biweekly podcast discussing thoughtbot’s experiences in web development. Read more
Optimizing images from terminal, ruby project or Ruby on Rails application
Few days ago I’ve released a satellite gem for image_optim called image_optim_pack. It contains latest versions of nearly all binaries required by image_optim for Mac OS X and Linux platforms (e.g. works on Heroku). It should make optimizing images from terminal, ruby project or Ruby on Rails application even easier.
Tropical Ruby 2015 CFP is open
Tropical Ruby 2015, the beach Ruby conference, will take place during March 5–8th at Porto de Galinhas, a paradisiac beach located in the Brazilian northeast coast. Read more
BDD on Rails with Minitest tutorial, Part 2: Implementing a Feature
Check out the second part of BDD on Rails with Minitest by Chris Kottom to see a step-by-step guide how you can use Minitest for complete feature implementation.
Growth Trumps Everything (For Startups)
You can’t expect customers to beat a path to your door because you have a great product. To succeed as a startup, you have to go out and recruit customers manually. Traction: A Startup Guide To Getting Customers gives a primer on how to market effectively. I’ve shared some nuggets and added some commentary as to why it matters for startups.
Find your happy_place with javascript and Rails
happy_place allows you to call js functions and pass in variables and partials. It has a simple interface which allows you to write object oriented javascript and use these objects in your controllers. Read more
How Canary Release helped delivering a Rails 2 to 3 upgrade
Hello rubyists from all over the globe! Just wanted to share with you our experience on delivering a big Rails 2 to 3 upgrade using a Canary Release approach. Read more
Green Ruby News #91
Another list of curated links about ruby, rails, webdev and other in Green Ruby News #91.
tty-progressbar released!
I’ve released tty-progressbar that displays progress bars in terminal and is super flexible. It is one of the components that is part of tty suite of tools. Please give it a try and let me know what you think!
Configuring Linux Box for Ruby/Rails Development with scripts
In this article I discuss why and how to do virtualization in (Ruby) development. Both - Vagrant and Docker are used for initial setup. Provision is done by the separate gem - linux_provision (similar to Oracle Instant Client Provision and OSX Provision).
gem TheDataRoleBlockRails released
TheDataRoleBlockRails is a mix of 2 popular frontend solutions ai/evil-blocks and kossnocorp/role with few patches for SLIM and HAML.
Ruby is about to get red hot. Again.
Ruby is about to get red hot. Again.
Memoization is an optimization technique...
Memoization is an optimization technique where you cache the results of expensive method calls. When the method is called with the same set of arguments, the cached result is returned. In this post, we will look at how we can implement memoization using Ruby’s metaprogramming features. [Continue reading…]
Back to Basics: Anonymous Functions and Closures
Anonymous functions and closures are a useful concepts included in most modern programming languages. Back to Basics: Anonymous Functions and Closures goes into depth in Ruby and JavaScript on this concept.
4 Fantastic Ways to Set Up State in Minitest
RSpec gives you a number of ways of setting up prior to test runs, but only some of these have direct analogs in Minitest. In this post, I show you the code that will let you approximate RSpec’s features (and explain when and why you might want to avoid using it). Read more
One-liner to get a precompiled Ruby on your own servers
Not a fan of RVM or rbenv for installing Ruby on your production/development servers? Ruby 1.9.2, 1.9.3, 2.0.0, 2.1.x for Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL, Fedora is now just a download away.
To comment or not to comment, that is the question. About self documenting code
The very real danger with commenting code is that it becomes outdated while the codebase rapidly evolves. And out of date comments are far worse than no comments. So what’s the alternative?How to write code that speaks for itself.
Feature Flags on Rails
In this post we will explore how we’ve implemented feature flags in a current web-application we’re working on. It’s a very simple process which means there are no excuses not to use a feature flag in your application.
Zopfli-ffi - Ruby wrapper for zopfli library
I just wrote article about Zopfli Compression Algorithm and Zopfli-ffi Ruby wrapper.
Complex HTML tags with content_tag
Last weekend I set myself to customize content_tag to allow dynamic tag generation. Read more
Trailblazer - A new architecture for Rails. Free preview chapter out!
Trailblazer introduces several new abstraction layers into Rails. It gives developers structure and architectural guidance and finally answers the question of “Where do I put this kind of code?” in Rails. My book’s first sample chapter is available now as a free download.
Robots Gain Autonomy to Manage and Analyze Embedded Data
ITTIA DB SQL is a proven choice for robotic data storage, providing a safe and efficient way to update and query local data on various embedded platforms. With ITTIA DB SQL, data is always available to multiple concurrent tasks and can be easily distributed to other robots and control systems . As a result, robots become autonomous data analysts and decision makers.
Delayed Job Plugin to kill Heroku worker...
Delayed Job Plugin to kill Heroku worker processes!