Learn Ruby Metaprogramming for Great Good
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By Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski,
Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski offers a clean example of good metaprogramming in Ruby.
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DRY Off Your Rails Code with ActiveSupport::Concerns
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By Kingsley Silas,
One of Rails' best conventions for DRYing up your code is ActiveSupport::Concern. Kingsley Silas shows you how to use it.
Diving into How Hashes Work in Ruby
Ruby
By David Bush,
David Bush dives into the internals of how hashes work in Ruby, including a neat experiment to drive home the point.
Quick Tip: Use Enums in Rails for Mapped Values
Ruby
By William Kennedy,
William Kennedy shows you how to use Enums in Rails to map values on your model, keeping your code readable.
Creating Machine Learning Systems with JRuby
Ruby
By Paul Götze,
Paul Goetze explains how to use JRuby to create a machine learning algorithm using Ruby.
Authenticate Your Rails API with JWT from Scratch
Ruby
By Vinoth,
Vinoth shows you how to authenticate the users of your Rails-based APIs with JSON Web Tokens (JWT) from scratch.
Create a Twitter GUI Client with Shoes
Ruby
By Ardian Haxha,
Ardian Haxha builds a Twitter client GUI using Ruby, Shoes, and the Twitter API.
Rails: Dynamically Chain Scopes to Clean up SQL Queries
Ruby
By William Kennedy,
William Kennedy shows a technique to dynamically chain many ActiveRecord scopes together to clean up your controller code.
Tracking Common Rails Performance Issues with Skylight
Ruby
By Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski,
Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski runs through several common Rails performance problems, showing how to find them via Skylight, and how to fix them.
Continuous Deployment of Rails with SemaphoreCI
Ruby
By Sarmad Sabih,
Sarmad Sabih walks you through every step of continuous deployment a Rails app to EC2 using Bitbucket, Capistrano, and SemaphoreCI.
Quick Tip: The Many Ways to Create a Hash in Ruby
Ruby
By Glenn Goodrich,
Glenn Goodrich shows that, although there are many ways to create a Hash in Ruby, they are all just a bit of child's play.
Pry: A Simple Start
Ruby
By Vinoth,
Vinoth makes a simple introduction to some of the best features of Pry, a replacement REPL for Ruby's IRB.
Better Nested Attributes in Rails with the Cocoon Gem
Ruby
By Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski,
Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski shows you how to do nested forms and attributes in Rails with the Cocoon gem.
Tools for a Modern Ruby Development Setup
Ruby
By David Bush,
David Bush shows you some of the development tools he uses to be more productive in Ruby.
Create a Slack Bot to Interact with Your Wiki
Ruby
By Ardian Haxha,
Ardian Haxha shows you how to accept our new bot-based overlords and write your own Slack bot using Ruby and Sinatra. Assimilate!
Tap User Interests with Curated Feeds in Rails
Ruby
By Christopher Vundi,
Christopher Vundi walks through setting up an interest feed model and application for your users in Rails.
Plugs Are to Elixir What Rack Is to Ruby
Ruby
By Jesse Herrick,
Jesse Herrick compares Plugs in Elixir to Rack in Ruby. Learn a bit of Elixir and its elegance with middleware and plugs.
Building Roman Numerals in a Day with Ruby Metaprogramming
Ruby
By William Kennedy,
William Kennedy uses a simple example of making integers into Roman numerals to show off Ruby metaprogramming.
Asynchronous Multiple File Upload with Rails and Dropzone.js
Ruby
By Vahob Rasti,
Vahob Rasti uses Dropzone.js to equip a Rails application with multiple file, asynchronous upload.
Practical Graphs on Rails: Chartkick in Practice
Ruby
By Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski,
Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski runs through a very practical example of using Chartkick to create a graph with Rails.
The Ins and Outs of Debugging Ruby with Byebug
Ruby
By David Bush,
David Bush shows you some basic and advanced techniques with Byebug, the definitive debugger for Ruby 2.0.
Unbundling Bundler: A Thorough Look at Bundler’s Utilities
Ruby
By Glenn Goodrich,
Glenn Goodrich takes another deep dive into the world of Bundler, this time focusing on the utilities that ship with Bundler.
Gemfile Mining: A Dive into Bundler’s Gemfile
Ruby
By Glenn Goodrich,
Glenn Goodrich takes a deep dive into the Gemfile, the core of Bundler's excellent dependency management ecosystem.
A Quick Dive into the Crystal Programming Language
Ruby
By Benjamin Tan Wei Hao,
Benjamin Tan Wei Hao takes a quick dive into Crystal, a new programming language that is statically typed and compiled but has Ruby syntax.
Automate Docker with the Remote API and Ruby
Ruby
By Ardian Haxha,
Ardian Haxha demonstrates how to use the Docker Remote API and Ruby to perform Docker tasks like image and container creation.
A Look at Content Management Systems in Rails
Ruby
By Kingsley Silas,
Kingsley Silas compares several Rails-based Content Managment Systems giving use cases, pros, and cons for each.
Quickly Process API Requests with Shoryuken and SQS
Ruby
By William Kennedy,
William Kennedy demonstrates using SQS and Shoryuken to process queued requests to a third-party API. Very useful
A Recipe for mRuby Raspberry Pi? Just Add h2o!
Ruby
By Glenn Goodrich,
Glenn Goodrich explores the Raspberry Pi platform using mRuby and the h2o web server. Learn how to make a quick API or capture a camera image.
Control the Physical World with Ruby and Artoo
Ruby
By Dhaivat Pandya,
Dhaivat Pandya takes you on a tour of Artoo, a Ruby-based platform aimed at making working with embedded systems and Ruby a breeze. Boop Beep Boop!
Deliver the Mail with Amazon SES and Rails
Ruby
By Sarmad Sabih,
Sarmad Sabih demonstrates configuring Amazon's Simple Email Service with Rails, allowing you a cheap email solution from your app.