Introduction to Cells: A Better View Layer for Rails etc. : Lugo Labs

Why I can't leave Ruby for Elixir

Workshop 14 - 18 April 2016

This post is not about the Elixir community or job opportunities with Ruby. It is not really about Ruby vs Elixir at all. What I want to explain is why I am uncomfortable hitching my bandwaggon to the movement from OOP to FP.

New Reality release: comprehensive docs and other cool things

zverok with ruby - 18 April 2016

Remember the Reality library? That thing which wants to make the entire world inspectable and computable through Ruby, Wikipedia, Wikidata and other data sources? Like this:

Speed Things up by Learning about Caching in Rails

SitePoint - 18 April 2016

Caching can really provide great benefits by speeding up your web application and improving its user experience. Today we are going to discuss various caching techniques available in Rails: page, action, fragment, model and HTTP caching. You are then free to choose one of them or even use multiple techniques in conjunction.

New! Top 10 Sites Built With Ruby On Rails In 2016

netguru - 18 April 2016

Some time ago we published a ranking of top sites built with Ruby on Rails, but a lot has changed since then. Here's the new, fresh list! Find out the top 10 places on the web which are powered by Ruby on Rails.

Gemify Your Client-Side App for Rails

Viget - 18 April 2016

If you've ever worked with a Rails app before, you've already worked with gemfiied assets.

Improving Rails application documentation

Everyday Rails - 18 April 2016

I’ve been reading and writing some Python and Elixir code lately. It’s gotten me thinking about how documentation is treated in code bases. In those languages, documentation is a first-class citizen. In Ruby and Rails, not so much. We rely on self-documenting code and robust test suites to explain the code’s intent to humans. self-documenting code and robust test suites are important, but I’ve been wondering lately if they’re sufficient means of explaining what our software does, especially to newcomers to a project.

Rails 5 has added accessed_fields to find the fields that are actually being used in the application

Bigbinary - 18 April 2016

In some cases we might want to select only certain columns for performance reason. The difficult task is finding what all columns are actually used in a request. To help in this task, Rails 5 has added accessed_fields method which lists attributes that were actually used in the operation.

How to Diagnose Ruby on Rails N + 1 Query Problems

A Year of Commits - 17 April 2016

Diagnosing performance problems in a production Ruby on Rails application can be deceptively complex. When constructing a new application or expanding the features of an existing one, development environments that are not subject to typical production web traffic may not make performance issues evident. In those instances, the use of some simple (and mostly free) tools can help diagnose performance issues in production.

Introduction to Cells: A Better View Layer for Rails

SitePoint - 14 April 2016

More and more Ruby on Rails developers are struggling to implement complex web applications following the vanilla Rails Way™. They are looking for alternative patterns, techniques or approaches to control growing complexity.

Talking Universal JavaScript at Fluent Conf

Pusher - 14 April 2016

Back in March I had the pleasure of flying out to San Francisco to speak at Fluent Conf, a yearly event organised by O’Reilly focused on front-end development, to speak about Universal JavaScript. You can find the video below, along with links to the slides and extra information. By writing our applications in this universal […]