Take Opportunities to Beat Imposter Syndrome
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Start Your SEO Right with Sitemaps on Rails
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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.
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.
Master Many-to-Many Associations with ActiveRecord
Fred Heath discusses the many different many-to-many associations and how to handle each with ActiveRecord.
Lexers, Parsers, and ASTs, OH MY!: How Ruby Executes
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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.
5 Ruby Resources for the Hour of Code
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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.
Video Uploads with Rails and Ziggeo
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The Conventions of Contributing to Open Source
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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.
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.
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.
Real-Time Messaging with Rails and ActionCable
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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.
Build a Messaging System with Rails and ActionCable
Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski pens the first of a two-part series building a complete messaging system with Rails and ActionCable.
Why Learning Rails Is Still a Great Choice in 2016
Given that software is changing at the speed of light, how can something like Rails an object-oriented language persevere? Is it worth learning? Yes!
10 Ruby on Rails Best Practices
Sarmad Sabih runs through some of his favorite best practices for Rails applications.
Password-Less Authentication in Rails
Password-less authentication is becoming more popular, and Vinoth shows you how to do it from scratch in Rails.
Learn Ruby Metaprogramming for Great Good
Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski offers a clean example of good metaprogramming in Ruby.
DRY Off Your Rails Code with ActiveSupport::Concerns
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
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
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
Paul Goetze explains how to use JRuby to create a machine learning algorithm using Ruby.
Authenticate Your Rails API with JWT from Scratch
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
Ardian Haxha builds a Twitter client GUI using Ruby, Shoes, and the Twitter API.
Rails: Dynamically Chain Scopes to Clean up SQL Queries
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
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
Sarmad Sabih walks you through every step of continuous deployment a Rails app to EC2 using Bitbucket, Capistrano, and SemaphoreCI.