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Take Opportunities to Beat Imposter Syndrome

For the last 6+ years, I've been managing the SitePoint Ruby channel. I was given the job by desperate, over-tasked folks trying to save a...
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Beyond Rails Abstractions: A Dive into Database Internals

David Bush discusses the importance of understanding core functionality in Rails, showing how indexes work and how to implement a database by yourself.
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Search and Autocomplete in Rails Apps

Ilya shows how to set up search and autocomplete features in a Rails application, including additional pg_search options, matched usernames and geolocation.
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Take Opportunities to Beat Imposter Syndrome

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Léonard Hetsch, May 22

Building APIs with Ruby on Rails and GraphQL

Léonard demonstrates the possibilities offered by GraphQL and Rails by implementing a simple movies database API.
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David Bush, May 04

Beyond Rails Abstractions: A Dive into Database Internals

David Bush discusses the importance of understanding core functionality in Rails, showing how indexes work and how to implement a database by yourself.
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Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski, Apr 24

Search and Autocomplete in Rails Apps

Ilya shows how to set up search and autocomplete features in a Rails application, including additional pg_search options, matched usernames and geolocation.
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Glenn Goodrich, Jan 30

Take Opportunities to Beat Imposter Syndrome

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Vinoth, Jan 16

Handle Password and Email Changes in Your Rails API

Vinoth completes this two-part series on authenticating your Rails API using JWT by handling reset password and email endpoints.
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Parth Modi, Jan 09

Do the Right Thing and Document Your Rails API with Swagger

Parth Modi generates executable docs for his Rails API using swagger-docs and swagger-ui.
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Fred Heath, Jan 02

Master Many-to-Many Associations with ActiveRecord

Fred Heath discusses the many different many-to-many associations and how to handle each with ActiveRecord.

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Jesse Novotny, Dec 19

Setting Up an Angular SPA on Rails with Devise and Bootstrap

Jesse Novotny provides a walkthrough for setting up an Angular single page app on Rails with Devise and Bootstrap.
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David Bush, Dec 19

Lexers, Parsers, and ASTs, OH MY!: How Ruby Executes

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Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski, Dec 12

Common Rails Security Pitfalls and Their Solutions

Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski walks through 10 common security issues when using Rails and how to avoid and manage each one.
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Ruby, Rails, and Imposter Syndrome, with Glenn Goodrich

In this episode, Tim and David are joined by Glenn Goodrich, aka Ruprict, a developer by day and SitePoint's Ruby Channel editor by night.
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Glenn Goodrich, Dec 05

5 Ruby Resources for the Hour of Code

Over the last couple of years, I've been an active participant in the Hour of Code. If you're unfamiliar with the Hour of Code, here's a blurb from its site: The Hour of Code...
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Parth Modi, Dec 01

N + 1: When More Queries Is a Good Thing

Parth Modi explains how he discovered that fixing the N + 1 Query Problem isn't always about reducing the number of queries. Sometimes, more queries is better.
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Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski, Nov 28

Video Uploads with Rails and Ziggeo

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Glenn Goodrich, Nov 24

The Conventions of Contributing to Open Source

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Jeff Smith, Nov 23

Talk with the Experts: Glenn Goodrich

This is a recap of our recent AMA with Glenn Goodrich, our Ruby channel editor and author behind Rails: Novice to Ninja on SitePoint. 
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Ardian Haxha, Nov 21

Five Trending Open Source Projects That Use Ruby

Ardian Haxha details five of the most popular open source Ruby projects on Github.
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Vinoth, Nov 17

Leverage Heroku's Metrics for Better App Performance

 Vinoth shows you what the Heroku Metrics Dashboard displays and then runs through some scenarios on improving performance using these metrics.
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David Bush, Nov 14

Rack-App: A Performant and Pragmatic Web Microframework

David Bush introduces Rack-App, a web microframework in Ruby that has a single dependency, can handle thousands of endpoints, and is among the fastest around.
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Glenn Goodrich, Nov 14

From Novice to Ninja: How to Master Using Plugins in Rails

Rails: Novice to Ninja: The plugins architecture of Rails warrants attention, and this excerpt gives detailed insight to master the use of plugins in Rails.
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Viktoria Kotsurenko, Nov 10

7 Design Patterns to Refactor MVC Components in Rails

Viktoria Kotsurenko explains seven very useful design patterns and how they can be applied to MVC components in Rails to make your app more maintainable.
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Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski, Nov 07

Real-Time Messaging with Rails and ActionCable

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Viktoria Kotsurenko, Nov 03

The Basics of MVC in Rails: Skinny Everything

Viktoria Kotsurenko reviews some of the basics of MVC in Rails, showing why everything should be skinny.
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