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React Native in Plain English

Quick Left - 14 March 2016

What’s a React Native? React Native is a library that allows you to build native iOS and Android apps with your favorite JavaScript faction, React. The project was introduced by Facebook in March of 2015. Less than a year later, there have been over 20 releases, so that should tell you something about its community’s fervor. Why React […]

Write Great Cucumber Tests

Sause Labs - 14 March 2016

Using Cucumber with outlined best practices in your automated tests ensures that your automation experience will be successful and that you’ll get the maximum return on investment (ROI). Let’s review some important best practices needed before you start developing Cucumber tests. Writing Features Feature files help non-technical stakeholders engage and understand testing, resulting in collaboration […]

Rebuilding Git in Ruby

Giant Robots Smashing into Other Giant Robots - 14 March 2016

From zero to commit.

Creating new content types in Rails 4.2

Arkency - 12 March 2016

While working on the application for React.js+Redux workshop I've decided to follow the JSON API specification of responses for my API endpoints. Apart from a fact that following the spec allowed me to avoid bikeshedding, there was also an interesting issue I needed to solve with Rails. In JSON API specification there is a requirement about the Content-Type being set to an appropriate value. It's great, because it allows generic clients to distinguish JSONAPI-compliant endpoints. Not to mention you can serve your old API while hitting the endpoint with an application/json Content-Type and have your new API responses crafted in an iterative way for the same endpoints.

How to Know When to Redesign Your Website

Viget - 11 March 2016

For most organizations, redesigning a website is a big deal. It costs money. It takes time. And, it can be a difficult process for first-timers.

Suppress save events in Rails 5

Bigbinary - 11 March 2016

Rails 5 added suppress method which is used to prevent the receiver from being saved during the given block. Let’s say, we have an E-commerce application, which has many products. Whenever new product is launched then subscribed customers are notified about it.

Instagram-style filters in HTML5 Canvas

Viget - 10 March 2016

Instagram made us fall in love with image filters. A well-chosen filter can enhance a photo greatly. It augments the best parts and softens undesirable qualities.

The Simple Yet Powerful Ruby Enumerable Module

Codeship - 10 March 2016

Here is a simple requirement: Find the positive numbers in an array. There are most likely hundreds of solutions, but here is one of them: positives = [] for i in [-5, 10, 0, 15, -2] positives << i if i.positive? end p positives # => [10, 15] It works, it’s simple, but it feels […]

Onwards to Rails 5: Additions, Changes, and Deprecations

SitePoint - 10 March 2016

Rails 5, a new major release of the popular web framework, is coming soon and, of course, we are looking forward to it. Refer to this article if you want to read on overview of some new features that will be introduced. Today, however, we are going to dig into some technical details, discuss which methods were removed or deprecated, which settings have been changed, and how to migrate your existing Rails 4 application to version 5.

Rails 5 makes rendering partial from cache substantially faster

Bigbinary - 09 March 2016

Fetch is usually pretty fast with any caching solution however one fetch per todo can make the app slow. Gem multi_fetch_fragments fixed this issue by using read_multi api provided by Rails. In a single call to cache, this gem fetches all the cache fragments for a collection. The author of the gem saw 78% speed improvment by using this gem. The features of this gem have been folded into Rails 5 .