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Christopher Vundi walks through setting up an interest feed model and application for your users  in Rails.

Jesse Herrick compares Plugs in Elixir to Rack in Ruby. Learn a bit of Elixir and its elegance with middleware and plugs.

William Kennedy uses a simple example of making integers into Roman numerals to show off Ruby metaprogramming.

Vahob Rasti uses Dropzone.js to equip a Rails application with multiple file, asynchronous upload.

Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski runs through a very practical example of using Chartkick to create a graph with Rails.

David Bush shows you some basic and advanced techniques with Byebug, the definitive debugger for Ruby 2.0. 

Glenn Goodrich takes another deep dive into the world of Bundler, this time focusing on the utilities that ship with Bundler. 

Glenn Goodrich takes a deep dive into the Gemfile, the core of Bundler's excellent dependency management ecosystem.

Benjamin Tan Wei Hao takes a quick dive into Crystal, a new programming language that is statically typed and compiled but has Ruby syntax.

Ardian Haxha demonstrates how to use the Docker Remote API and Ruby to perform Docker tasks like image and container creation.

Kingsley Silas compares several Rails-based Content Managment Systems giving use cases, pros, and cons for each.

William Kennedy demonstrates using SQS and Shoryuken to process queued requests to a third-party API. Very useful

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!

Sarmad Sabih demonstrates configuring Amazon's Simple Email Service with Rails, allowing you a cheap email solution from your app.

Vinoth demonstrates how to take a complicated search model and open it up with tags. This is a tried and true approach to improving search on both ends.

Sam Sarmad shows how he removed a ton of duplicated test code when testing ActiveModel validations.

Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski writes this very thorough tutorial on creating a chat application with Rails 5, ActionCable, and Devise. This goes through how to authorize users to that chat and protect your web sockets with Rails. Very cool!

Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski shows you just how easy it is to make beautiful, interactive charts and graphs in your Rails app. Your users will love this.

Jesus Castello walks through the basics of cryptography using examples in Ruby. This is an excellent primer on crypto.

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Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski brushes up your knowlege of ActiveRecord associations in Rails. This review is excellent and will certainly teach you something new.

Devdatta Kane writes this interesting piece on creating barcodes with JRuby and the Barcodes4J library. This is cool stuff.

Fred Heath takes you through the ins-and-outs of modules in Ruby. Learn where modules fit in the Ruby Object Model and how to use the effectively.

Nick Sutterer, author of the Trailblazer framework, writes a deeper post on using the Cells gem to improve the Rails view layer.

Kingsley Silas dives deep into the basics of routing in Rails. Understand how URLs are mapped and some of the more obscure ways to set routes in Rails

Devdatta Kane writes this straightforward tutorial on using jXLS and Rails to provide Excel reporting to your users. 

Devdatta Kane defines JSON Web Tokens and shows how to use JWT authentication in Rails with Devise.

Ilya Bordrov-Krukowski pens this tutorial on using the Geocoder gem with Rails. Learn how to find addresses, use maps, and locate coordinates in your app.

Katrina Owen, creator of exercism.io, shows you how to contribute to the code lessons on exercism to grow both the site and your own skills.

Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski shows you how to speed up your app performance by demonstrating all the ways to cache in Rails.