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RubyConf 2023 Recap
An attendee’s perspective of my time at RubyConf 2023. https://kevinjmurphy.com/posts/rubyconf-2023-recap/
Software Developer Continuing Education | Rubber Duck Dev Show 109
In this episode, we discuss software developer continuing education and all the different options available: https://www.rubberduckdevshow.com/episodes/109-software-developer-continuing-education/
Rails Exception Notifier | Alternative to rollbar.com or sentry.com
ExceptionNotification is a gem for Ruby on Rails applications that provides a simple and customizable way to handle error tracking and notifications. When an exception occurs in your Rails application, ExceptionNotification can automatically send you details about the error via different notifiers, such as email, Slack, or even custom webhooks. [more inside]
Introducing Lesli: A Practical SaaS Development Framework
Lesli is a SaaS Development Framework designed to build highly scalable, secure and customizable software products. Built-on top of Ruby on Rails, Postgres, Vuejs, Bulma, SASS and many more awesome open-source libraries, packages, gems and tools. [more inside]
rubysol gem v0.1 - more rubies for layer 1 (l1) contract programming
hello, another little update from the rubidity & rubysol universe. the rubidity next gem (and language) is now known as rubysol and sports its very own gem series (incl. rubysol-contracts, and more) and the rubidity-classic gem is now the one and only rubidity gem. what’s the difference (in a nutshell)? rubidity tries to be as close as possible in syntax to solidity and rubysol tries to be as close as possible in syntax to ruby. you pick. you decide. happy blockchaining / (dumb) contract programming with ruby.
Technical Review of Open Source Feedbin
I am continuing the series of open-source reviews with feedbin
Tidy Code--How to Generate Unique Names With a Value Object
An exploration on refactoring a common pattern into a Value Object. https://delonnewman.name/articles/2023/11/16/tidy-code-unique-names/
Reviewing open source Ruby on Rails app
I started a series of review open source Ruby apps. I reviewed two so far Zammad and Chatwoot. [more inside]
Slides & Code for RubyConf 2023 Workshop "How To Build Desktop Applications in Ruby"
Thanks to everyone who attended my RubyConf 2023 2-Hour Workshop “How To Build Desktop Applications in Ruby”. For those who missed the event, I posted the presentation slides and code exercises (27 exercises) on GitHub. I also blogged about the new Color The Circles game app that was developed at the RubyConf 2023 Community Day Glimmer Desktop Hacking event. [more inside]
Open redirect vulnerabilities in Rails apps
I wrote a short piece about open redirect vulnerabilities in Rails apps: https://greg.molnar.io/blog/rails-tricks-issue-22/
Programming DeFi: Uniswap V2. Part 2 - Ruby / Rubysol Ed.
hello, another little update from the rubidity & rubysol universe. this might be the world’s 1st article on rubysol (contract) programming: Programming DeFi: Uniswap V2. Part 2 written by Ivan Kuznetsov - and edited and the code changed to ruby / rubysol by my humble self. enjoy. PS: for reference the UniswapPairV2 contract, part ii in ruby / rubysol. From the article: Today we’ll add the core functionality to our clone of Uniswap V2–swapping. Decentralized tokens exchanging is what Uniswap was created for, and today we’ll see how it’s done. We’re still working on the core pair contract…
Preventing bugs in Ruby: tools of the trade
An overview of tools I found useful for preventing bugs when shipping Ruby code: Preventing bugs in Ruby: tools of the trade
Business Class kit goes 1.2
The Rails SaaS kit focused on integrating Merchant of Record payment providers goes v1.2. Now with Tailwind and GoodJob integration.
Polling vs WebSockets vs Server Sent Events (SSE) | Rubber Duck Dev Show 108
In this episode, we discuss the benefits and disadvantages of polling, WebSockets and server sent events (SSE): https://www.rubberduckdevshow.com/episodes/108-polling-vs-websockets-vs-server-sent-events/
Gem Credentials Management with Gemstash
When your Ruby project grows, you may use enterprise gems or want to extract some business logic into private gems. How can we efficiently manage gem credentials across the team? [more inside]
Rails Generator Command Builder GUI
Hey! I’ve built https://railsg.xyz , a GUI command builder for Rails Generator commands. For an example, check out the Rails Generate Controller page.
Grokking instance_eval
I wrapped my head around instance_eval recently, so I wrote up a short article illustrating how it’s used in Rails’ route config. [more inside]