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• #resources

I wanted to compile an ultimate list of Ruby resources, books, courses, people to follow, etc... This list contains resources I have used…

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• #refactoring

Controllers can get out of control. Their job should generally be quite simple. In an MVC framework such as Rails, they should have the job…

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• #cli

Typically in Rails apps we use rake tasks as a way to interact with our application through the command line. We're all familiar with…

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• #metaprogramming
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In this article we are going to look at method_missing and respond_to_missing? in order to see what they do and how they can be used. We…

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• #databases
• #postgres

Race conditions A race condition or race hazard is the behavior of an electronic, software or other system where the output is dependent on…

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How to ensure your values are unique It's often the case that you want to ensure that you've got uniqueness in your data. You only want an…

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• #soap
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• #gross

Can you do this integration? Is what I was asked. Oh no... it's in SOAP? Instantly all the time I spent working with SOAP APIs in PHP…

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Situation Maybe you originally wrote some code for a Rails project that you're trying to use in another framework, in an automation script…

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What are tree structures used for? Tree structures are needed any time you want to insert a hierarchy into your data. It's when you want to…

• #performance
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Hi, Leigh, are you busy? The website is no longer responding... can you investigate? A phone call nobody really likes to receive on a…

• #i18n
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Why does this site have I18n? It's a good question because my content is only available in English (perhaps I should write some articles in…

• #angular
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Using Angular in Rails App Single Page Applications (SPA) aren’t incredibly new any more, but there are a lot of people with Rails…

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Our Goal In this article I'd like to discuss how to implement user authentication into this blog. In this article about modelling the data…

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Background At FlipGive we use RSpec to handle all of our testing. Over the years we've built up quite a few tests... last count there…

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Today's Goal: Creating an Admin Section This website, along with most of the other ones I create end up having an admin section; a place…

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What is PgHero? PgHero is a gem written by Andrew Kane for getting quick insights into how your Postgres database is performing and where…

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Deciding What Models are Needed In my last article in this series, getting started with ruby on rails , we worked through getting Rails…

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Git Init The first thing I do when starting a new project is to create a new git repository. GitHub is great if you don't mind the code…

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What is a Mail Interceptor? When using ActionMailer in Rails, there is a way to hook into the outbound message after you call the "deliver…

• #json
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When building a RESTful API in Rails, there are many different options and gems you can use to format your JSON responses. This isn't a post…

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Block based configuration is a pattern you see quite a bit when using ruby. When I look at this website itself, there are 3 different gems…

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Barby is a great gem for when you have to generate a barcode or QR code. You can choose to output it as any number of barcode types or as a…

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Goal If you're planning to take over the world (or a smaller but no less noble task of taking over Canada), you'll either need to convince…