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Write You a Parser for Fun and Win
I just published a post about creating parsers with Parslet.
Zobi, a gem to keep Rails controllers DRY
We just published Zobi, a gem that helps mix several functionalities in a Rails controller.
Speed up your Ruby on Rails application using WebP images
Using WebP it’s possible to reduce page load time by half.
Advanced SQL Planner Offers Data Analysis Intelligence to Embedded Devices
ITTIA DB SQL planner provides applications with sophisticated queries and accurate decisions, enabling devices to gain intelligence in M2M frameworks that produce Internet-of-Things (IoT) ecosystems. This tool supports a broad range of SQL queries to express complicated joins, grouping, query expressions, and data analysis to calculate critical data statistics efficiently.
Mousetrap-rails 1.4.6 is out
I’ve just released mousetrap-rails 1.4.6 – Rails gem for handling keyboard shortcuts via mousetrap javascript library. Here is a small post with release highlights and gem page on GitHub.
Anti-Pattern: Iteratively Building a Collection
Ruby comes with many fantastic Enumerable methods, but the two most useful ones come through Smalltalk via LISP: #map and #inject. What follows are some lengthy method definitions followed by rewrites that are not only more concise but also more clear in their intentions.
Single Responsibility Principle in Rails using Form Objects
This is my second post about Single Responsibility Principle in Rails using Form Objects. The examples are built using the Syrup::FormObject gem.
Rails cookies are dangerous
Turns out, Rails cookies can be dangerous and they don’t play nice with others. Read more
tenancy v0.2.0 is released
tenancy v0.2.0, a simple multitenancy with activerecord through scoping, has just been released.
i18n-tasks 0.2.1 and Google Translate
i18n-tasks v0.2.1 has just been released. The gem provides tasks to manage missing and unused translations in Rails. A notable new feature is the task to prefill translations using Google Translate:
Tutorial: Saying "Hello world" with Ruby on Rails
Guide to your first Ruby on Rails application. Saying hello world with Ruby on Rails
Manage your rubies with direnv and ruby-install
A short article that explains how you can use direnv and ruby-install to manage and switch between different versions of ruby, similarly to rbenv or rvm.
Ruby's -e, -n, and -p switches
Useful flags for using Ruby in shell one-liners or as part of a Unix pipeline.
Creating gems-wrappers for executable java jars
This article describes Ruby gem for wrapping Java jars into Ruby gem and a practical example of how to use it.
Handling API Rate Limits by Retrying Requests in Background Jobs
Has your app ever encountered a 429 (Too Many Requests) status code when making requests to a third-party API? Getting rate limited can be a nuisance and if not handled properly can result in a negative user experience. While one solution is to catch the exception and ignore it, a better solution is to retry the request.
Speed up your Ruby on Rails application using WebP images
I just wrote an article about Speed up your Ruby on Rails application using WebP images. Hope this will help increase the speed of your ROR application.
Reading Rails - Exception Handling
Ok, so you know how to use Rails. Read more
Giving up on Ruby & Ruby on Rails
Nice article for those thinking of giving up on Ruby & Ruby on Rails.
Don't Stub the System Under Test
The System Under Test helps us focus on what we’re really testing, what Depended-On Components (DOC) interact with it, and how to replace a Depended-On Component with a Test Double (such as a stub, spy, or fake). Read more
The Future of Software Development
As the industry and the associated technologies mature, will software development eventually become less of an uncertain endeavor, or will it continue to be complex forever? Read more
Travis Foundation Launches Open Source Grants with Paymill and RVM
Today we’re launching the Travis Foundation, an initiative to improve and foster Open Source! Read more
Comparing and sorting elements with Comparable
Our previous feature “Building a collection of Kittens” was a huge success for our application. So, the product owner decided to bring this collection of kittens to a brand new level of awesomeness. Our mission is to sort kittens based on their cuteness.
Heap Overflow in Floating Point Parsing (CVE-2013-4164). Fixed in 1.9.3-p484 and 2.0.0-p353.
There is an overflow in floating point number parsing in Ruby. This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2013-4164. Read more
Decorators for your model in your view!
I released this gem a while ago, but I wasn’t certain of the direction I wanted to take. Now that I have, I hope it helps you with your project. Read more
themes_on_rails: multi-theme support to your Rails 3/4 application
I just released themes_on_rails: add multi themes support to your Rails 3/4 application.