How to use any gem in the Rails production console etc.

How many times did you come across a great gem you wanted to try out in a production console, like benchmark-ips or awesome-print? Be it for performance or for readability, sometimes it's nice to be able to try out something new quickly without going through a pull request + deployment process. This is possible by modifying the $LOAD_PATH Ruby global variable and requiring the gem manually.

This article was originally published by Richard Schneeman on his personal site. With his kind permission, we’re sharing it here for Codeship readers. My favorite part of seeing someone live code is all the mistakes they make, but not because I’m a mean awful person who likes to see others fail. Watching others recover from […]

When’s the last time you gave up on a website because it took too long to load on your phone? Or encountered an ad interstitial on your tablet that mysteriously had no way to close? Slow and poorly-designed pages on mobile devices suck. They gobble up data and kill user experience.

Comparable#clamp method is added to Ruby 2.4 to limit the object to a specific range of values

Rails provides excellent support for software security, but you need to know how and when to apply those supports for them to work. Here's an overview of tools you can use to keep your applications safe.

Karol Galanciak - Ruby on Rails and Ember.js consultant, building ambitious and high performant web applications.

Jest is a batteries included unit testing framework by Facebook. It's fast, feature rich, and integrates perfectly with Babel, an important tool our build pipeline. Jest allows for an exceptional unit testing experience.

As a newcomer to the UX field, I’ve recently been reading about best practices in web design. In Don’t Make Me Think, a classic UX book by Steve Krug, I came across this passage about navigability:

Handy Git commands for everyday use