How to Effectively Use Rubocop Ignore Comments in Your Code

How to Effectively Use Rubocop Ignore Comments in Your Code

Upgrading and Deploying with Kamal 2.0 Experience

Upgraded Drifting Ruby to deploy with Kamal 2.0. It did have some hiccups that caused a little bit of down time. You can read about what happened here . I talk about the upgrade process from 1.9 to 2.0 as well.

Tracking down a memory leak in an old Rails app

Testing ActiveRecord Models with RSpec

Testing ActiveRecord Models with RSpec

Organize your Rails codebase with aaa engines

Less clutter, more joy: one mini-app per feature with aaa engines. 💚 [more inside]

Introducing Check-ins for Scheduled Job and Continuous Process Monitoring

See how AppSignal Check-ins make it easy to monitor your Ruby app’s scheduled jobs and continuous processes. [more inside]

Scaling Rails: setup multiple databases with Postgres Logical Replication

It’s easy but has some gotchas due to Rails metadata tables creating conflicts while trying to sync data across databases. [more inside]

Announcing Hanami 2.2.0.beta2

Rounding out our database layer: MySQL, powerful multi-database support, plus full contracts in actions. [more inside]

Terminal–based game in 150 lines

I wrote a terminal dungeon crawler game with pure Ruby in less than 150 lines. Here’s a guide

Building Ruby on Rails engines

Gilded Rose Kata and the value of explicit requirements in the code

Doing the Gilded Rose Kata refactoring while keeping the requirements wording very explicit in the Ruby code: Gilded Rose Kata and the value of explicit requirements in the code. An exercise in Ruby expressiveness as a benefit for maintenance.

How Propshaft Works: A Rails Asset-Pipeline (Visual) Breakdown

Rails on Docker: Build Secrets for Yarn with 1Password

A quick tutorial on using Docker Build secrets for authentication when using private yarn/npm packages (and gems) in GitHub, and using the 1Password to manage tokens / keys.

Rails 7.1 adds support for logging background job enqueue callers

wow_dbc gem - CRUD .dbc files from World of Warcraft - native C ext

https://github.com/sebyx07/wow_dbc [more inside]

Kamal new proxy

Here’s a post on Kamal Proxy replacing Traefik. What, why, how.

Ruby VM + Rails inside Azerothcore wow private server - Script in ruby instead of c++

Adding your Rails app to the Home Screen - the Ultimate Guide

Rails 8 will support Progressive Web Apps (PWA) out-of-the-box but you have all the tools you need to make your Rails app installable today. This post goes in-depth to show you how. [more inside]

The Decide, Evolve, React pattern in Ruby

This article describes the Decide, Evolve, React pattern with Ruby examples, for a cohesive approach to audit trails and event-driven apps. [more inside]

Ruby’s hidden gems: Sorbet

Let’s see how Sorbet addresses the challenges of dynamic typing in Ruby:

Generate a Rails 8 app with Nextgen

Nextgen, my interactive Rails app generator, now supports Rails 8! Use Nextgen to fine-tune your rails new experience by selecting just the gems and frameworks you need. A version selector lets you choose between Rails 7.2, the 7-2-stable branch (edge), or Rails 8 alpha via the main branch. And a robust Vite option is also available for projects that need a modern Node-based frontend build system with fast hot-reloading. https://github.com/mattbrictson/nextgen/releases/tag/v0.24.0

Rails adds the ability to ignore counter cache columns while they are backfilling

Practical Guide for Database Scaling: how to use Postgres logical replication

How to scale databases using Postgres Logical Replication to optimize performance, manage read replicas and easily handle intensive loads. [more inside]

Lack of Support/Participation and the Software Engineering Code of Ethics

Some Software Engineers mention “not being interested” as an excuse not to help someone with something that could benefit customers or the Software Engineering community at large (including the Ruby community) when the real reason is in fact covert discrimination against that person and lack of effort to treat them as an equal and equally respected member of their community. Know that Software Engineers have to abide by the Software Engineering Code of Ethics. And, it includes the statements: “Software engineers shall act consistently with the public interest” and “Software engineers shall be fair to and supportive of their colleagues”. [more inside]

New Calendlyr version released 🚀 Support for all Calendly API calls

Easy and comprehensive rubygem for Calendly. Currently supports API v2. [more inside]