Ruby
Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski, Oct 17
Go Global with Rails and I18n
Take our Rails app global with built-in Rails tool and some optional gems. From static text to user-generated content, your app will be a world traveler.
Ruby
Imran Latif, Oct 15
Create a Ruby Gem for a jQuery Plugin: Advanced
Continuing from a previous post, some more advanced concepts around gem development are covered here, such as Custom Helpers, configuration, and deployment.
Ruby
Imran Latif, Oct 13
Create a Ruby Gem for a jQuery Plugin: Basics
In this post, we will create a gem from scratch. When done, you'll have a gem that can pull in a jQuery plugin.
Web
George Fekete, Oct 10
How to be a Good Developer
George speaks from experience when he explains how one can be a good developer, or even, a professional.
Ruby
Kyle Szives, Oct 10
New Rails Shiny: ActiveJob
One of the highly anticipated feature of Rails 4.2 is the introduction of the Active Job library. Checkout ActionMailer, GlobalID, and more.
Ruby
Taylor Jones, Oct 08
Getting Started with Jekyll Collections
Jekyll is a great blogging engine that does not require a backend. Jekyll 2.0 brings many new features, one of which is Collections, the focus of this post.
Ruby
Glenn Goodrich, Oct 07
Buy Time with the Braintree v.zero SDK
Ruby editor Glenn Goodrich explains how to integrate Braintree's new v.zero SDK into a Rails app, to make accepting payments even easier.
3 COMMENTs
Ruby
Dhaivat Pandya, Oct 06
Heap Data Structure in Ruby
In this article, we'll cover the "heap" data structure along with some of the associated algorithms in Ruby.
4 COMMENTs
Ruby
Camilo Reyes, Oct 03
Understanding SQL Through Rails
The world of RDBMS and SQL can be confusing to a new developer. Rails offers tools and frameworks that make understanding the world of SQL much easier.
Ruby
David Copeland, Oct 01
What You Don’t Get With ActiveJob
ActiveJob is a unified API for queuing and writing background jobs. But it is what ActiveJob doesn't give you that is important: resiliency.
3 COMMENTs
Ruby
Bakir Jusufbegovic, Sep 29
Write Modular RSpec
Learn how to make your RSpec more modular and reusable by sharing code and contexts between specs.
Ruby
Islam Wazery, Sep 26
Ratyrate: Add Rating to Your Rails App
This tutorial explores how to add rating functionality to a Rails application. It will go through some of the more popular Ruby gems that provide such functionality, as well as how to implement rating from scratch. We will use the same application used in the the Online store article By Karim El Hussieny, in which the basic application creation process is explained in detail. Please refer to that post to learn how Karim scaffolded and styled the basic application.
4 COMMENTs
Ruby
Manu Ajith, Sep 24
Increase Engagement with Merit and Gamification
Add gamfication to your Rails app with the Merit gem. Badges, points, and rankings are all covered by this detailed walkthrough.
Ruby
Brian Knapp, Sep 22
Ruby Benchmarking Lessons Learned
After finishing work on the stunningly comprehensive Ruby Web Benchmark, Brian Knapp explains what the process taught him. Very interesting.
1 COMMENT
Ruby
Benjamin Tan Wei Hao, Sep 19
Testing Page Objects with SitePrism
In this article, I am going to talk about SitePrism, a testing tool that I have recently learned about and been enjoying. Here is a description of SitePrism from its' creators:
SitePrism gives you a simple, clean and semantic DSL for describing your site using the Page Object Model pattern, for use with Capybara in automated acceptance testing.
Before we go into SitePrism, let's talk about page objects, because page objects are central to understanding the philosophy behind SitePrism.
1 COMMENT
Ruby
Arne Brasseur, Sep 17
Functional Programming: Pure Functions
In the second of a two-part series on Functional Programming, learn about Pure and Composable functions, the benefits and tactics therein.
Ruby
Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski, Sep 15
Realtime Mini-Chat with Rails and Faye
In the second part of a two-part series, prototype AJAX polling vs Faye/web sockets to implement a real time chat application in Rails.
2 COMMENTs
Ruby
Dhaivat Pandya, Sep 12
Sorting Algorithms in Ruby
The point of understanding sorting algorithms has very little to do with the actual act of sorting. Rather, the different algorithms are great examples of various techniques that can be applied to large set of problems. In this article, we'll take a look at some of these algorithms and the underlying ideas, as well as implementations in Ruby.
4 COMMENTs
Ruby
Arne Brasseur, Sep 10
Functional Programming in Ruby: Value Objects
As Rubyists, what do we make of Functional Programming? Learn about Value Objects and decide for yourself.
Ruby
Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski, Sep 08
Mini-Chat with Rails
Make a fully asynchronous commenting system with Rails in this two-part tutorial.
Ruby
Glenn Goodrich, Sep 04
Fun Sending Mail on Rails
Learn all about sending email with Rails. This article covers the basics, some next level items, service to consider, and gems that help out.
Ruby
Karim El Husseiny, Sep 01
Integrate Braintree Payments into Rails
Integrate Braintree payments into an existing Rails application. This post follows up a previous tutorial that built a store that sells movies.
5 COMMENTs
Ruby
David Lyons, Aug 28
All Rubyists Love Logging
Learn the basics of the Logger class in the Ruby Standard Library. All apps, not just Rails apps, should use logging to communicate status and errors.
Ruby
Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski, Aug 25
Breadcrumbs on Rails with Gretel
Create a demo app with breadcrumbs using a gem called Gretel. The demo shows how breadcrumbs can be styled, customized, and scaled for large websites.