Hello everyone. I recently began to dig more deeply into Ruby 2.0. The most interesting feature to me is the addition of real keyword arguments. As I searched for information on how other languages implement and use keyword arguments, I realized how…
Continue Reading…After two decades as a developer, I would like to summarize my thoughts about a topic that crossed my path multiple times: SOA. A high-level definition of SOA is developing and combining services into something greater. Hopefully, this combination is useful as…
Continue Reading…Exploits happens, and this month the Rails and Ruby communities have seen no shortage. From a major exploit in Rails to a slightly different Rubygems.org attack, there has never been a better time to brush up on software security. Maybe you’re wondering…
Continue Reading…I am going to be posting a few articles related to Software Design Patterns and how they are applicable to Ruby. The first two patterns that will be covered are the Observer Pattern and the Singleton Pattern. Observer Pattern If you are…
Continue Reading…Yes, it is real, it is finally here! The long waited follow-up to the introductory article is here, just in time for the new year! In the first article, we learned about graph databases, their differences and advantages over traditional databases, and…
Continue Reading…Today, I want to talk about code metrics. Taking the time to critically analyze your code can provide a number of wonderful benefits. It provides a viewpoint through which you can identify problem areas in your code base. It can give you…
Continue Reading…All of us write code on a regular basis, some more often than others. But there is a major deficiency in the amount of time we spend reading others’ code. Authors don’t produce good work unless they consider the work of the…
Continue Reading…Data is at the heart of any nontrivial application – and while Ruby provides excellent Array and Hash classes with some seriously feel-good syntax support, anything else is rather sparse in the standard library. When you’re picking a data structure for your…
Continue Reading…“Favor composition over inheritance”, commonly attributed to a 1994 Book, Design Patterns, by a bunch of very smart people known as “the Gang of Four”, is often given as a solid piece of software development advice. In this article I’m going to…
Continue Reading…Deploying a PHP web application involves either uploading files to a server via FTP, or committing and pushing to a master branch of a Git repository. There is nothing complex about it. Deploying a Rails app is easy according to the official…
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