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JavaScript Audio API

Giant Robots Smashing into Other Giant Robots - 08 June 2016

How to draw waveforms using JavaScript.

Solving Backwards Compatibility in Ruby with a Proxy Object

Codeship - 06 June 2016

This article was originally published on Brandon Hilkert’s personal site, and with their permission, we’re sharing it here for Codeship readers. In a previous article, I documented the upcoming public API changes slated for Sucker Punch v2. Because of a poor initial design, these API changes are backwards incompatible. When I published the previous article, […]

Exploring Cryptography Fundamentals in Ruby

SitePoint - 06 June 2016

Cryptography is used all over the world to protect data from prying eyes. If you want to protect your own data you should be familiar with this topic. To help you get started, I will show you the main concepts & algorithms that you need to know, and I will include some Ruby examples so you can see the concepts in action.

Writing Efficient CSS

Pusher - 06 June 2016

We all have strong opinions on CSS, whether good or bad. CSS can be really helpful, but if you don’t think about how it works before writing selectors, you can seriously harm the performance of your page. In this talk, Joe Reeve introduces us to browser implementations of CSS selectors and what that means for […]

Rails is still cool but…

CodeTunes - 06 June 2016

A recent confession by Piotr Solnica started another bit of drama in the Ruby world. I started writing this post just after reading Fabio Akita’s response to Piotr’s post - for me it shows all the problems with Rails’ defensive mindset, but it also reminded me that Rails is still a pretty cool framework. Feel confused? Let’s solve that.

Keep Your Code In Great Shape With The ESlint Plugin For Ember Apps

netguru - 02 June 2016

As we all know, high quality code is reflected in the success of the application, but it is also one of the main factors encouraging developers to get involved with a project and has a direct impact on developers’ efficiency. Check out how easily you can improve your code even further in Ember with the new plugin and config we open-sourced recently - ‘eslint-plugin-netguru-ember’ and ‘eslint-config-netguru-ember’.

Learn Concurrency by Making a Countdown Latch in Ruby

SitePoint - 02 June 2016

A Countdown Latch is a concurrency abstraction that allows one or more threads to wait until all other threads are done with what they are doing. Therefore, a countdown latch is often referred to as a thread synchronization primitive. How are Countdown Latches Useful? Let say you have a bunch of threads that are fetching, […]

Rails 5 introduces country_zones helper method to ActiveSupport::TimeZone

Bigbinary - 01 June 2016

Before Rails 5, we could fetch all time zones for US by using us_zones method as follows.

Tic Tac Toe Game in Rails 5 with Action Cable

CookiesHQ - 31 May 2016

I've been playing around with Rails 5 Beta and as great as the Rails::API integration is, I think by far my favourite new feature is Action Cable. A lot of the examples out there that showcase the power of Action Cable are either a chat or a live messaging system. Although they were great in helping me understand what I can do with Action Cable, to help further my understanding I decided to build a Tic Tac Toe game (Noughts and Crosses for us Brits). Click to read the complete post

Rails 5 provides fragment caching in Action Mailer views

Bigbinary - 31 May 2016

Fragment cache helps in caching parts of the view instead of caching the entire view. Fragment caching is used when different parts of the view need to be cached and expired separately. Before Rails 5, fragment caching was supported only in Action View templates.