Model Web Pages with the Page Object Pattern
Ruby
By Darko Gjorgjievski,
Darko Gjorgjievski dives into the Page Object pattern for modelling a web page within Ruby. Makes interacting with existing pages easy.
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Uploading Files with Paperclip
Ruby
By Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski,
Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski explores another file uploading solution in Paperclip. Paperclip is a very popular gem written by ThoughtBot.
Kiba: ETL Done Right
Ruby
By Glenn Goodrich,
Glenn Goodrich pens a tutorial on using Kiba, a lightweight ETL framework written in Ruby. Move and process your data like a boss.
Fully Functional Jekyll Blog
Ruby
By Jesse Herrick,
Jesse Herrick walks through the creation of a functional blog site using Jekyll. Learn how to add search and customize the default templates.
DOTA 2 on Rails: Digging Deeper
Ruby
By Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski,
Ilya Bodrov digs deeper into the Dota API and rails, tracking player's ability upgrades, additional units, and tower/barrick status.
Nokogiri Fundamentals: Extract HTML from the Web
Ruby
By Darko Gjorgjievski,
Darko Gjorgjievski shows your the right way to learn Nokogiri to extract data from the web. Scrape HTML like a pro without all the headaches of learning.
CanCanCan: The Rails Authorization Dance
Ruby
By Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski,
Ilya Bodrov moves from authentication to authorization in Rails, covering CanCanCan, the premier authorization gem in the Rails ecosystem.
Authenticating with Google
Ruby
By Jesse Herrick,
Jesse Herrick walks through using Google, Device, and OmniAuth to get authentication working for your Rails app in no time.
Steam-Powered DOTA on Rails
Ruby
By Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski,
Ilya Bodrov dives into the Steam API to authenticate and retrieve match data for DOTA. This is a very interesting foray into a different API.
Stripe Subscriptions in Rails
Ruby
By Vasu K,
Vasu K walks through how to setup a subscription-based service using Stripe in Rails. Subscription plans are notoriously hard to setup, but this is easy.
Rails Authentication with OAuth 2.0 and OmniAuth
Ruby
By Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski,
Ilya Bodrov continues the Authentication in Rails series, covering OmniAuth and OAuth 2.0. Ilya configures Twitter, Facebook, and other providers.
Ru: Ruby in Your Shell
Ruby
By Benjamin Tan Wei Hao,
Benjamin Tan Wei Hao explores Ru, a utility that bring Ruby to the command line. Benjamin runs through several examples of using Ruby to make CLI tasks easy.
RethinkDB in Ruby: Map Reduce and Joins
Ruby
By Dhaivat Pandya,
Dhaivat Pandya continues exploring RethinkDB in Ruby, focusing on Map Reduce and Table Joins. See how RethinkDB takes a complex map reduce and makes it easy
Jekyll on Rails
Ruby
By Jesse Herrick,
Jesse Herrick combines Jekyll, the most popular static-site generator, with Rails, the most popular dynamic site framework. Use the right tool for the job.
Why is Rubygems Slow?
Ruby
By Richard Schneeman,
Richard Schneeman dives into what really happens when you install a Ruby gem. The post is deep and illuminating and will teach you something about gems.
RethinkDB in Ruby
Ruby
By Dhaivat Pandya,
Dhiavat Pandya walks through an introduction to RethinkDB. He explains the concepts behind this NoSQL database, as well as examples of using it in Ruby.