Imagine you’re writing a Rails app to organize conferences. As soon as you know what the app can do, you have to start deciding who can do what. Who is allowed to: Decide who will speak at the conference? Edit the presenter…
Continue Reading…Ruby has a lot of lovely features. The syntax is clean and simple, using meta-programming techniques is easy, the object model is great… You know, I can keep going with an endless list of features and reasons to love Ruby. By the…
Continue Reading…Twitter Bootstrap is a great way to quickly build a very polished web site. By now, we’ve all seen Twitter Bootstrap – it’s a great CSS and Javascript library open sourced by Twitter that makes it easy to produce a very polished…
Continue Reading…To some, cutting gems is considered an art for the minerally inclined. In the Ruby world, however, gem cutting is a matter of life. Creating RubyGems can be easy, but also a trap for a novice. By following some general community best…
Continue Reading…If you’ve ever written an application that had to be responsive while also performing some slow or long running tasks, then you’ve probably read about using background jobs. In the wonderful world of Ruby there are quite a few options for handling…
Continue Reading…Do we place too much trust in the developers of the Gems we use? Mal Curtis shares his concerns that developers could easily start using malicious code, and asks “What can you do to protect yourself?”
Continue Reading…It is a well established performance best practice for a web page to minimize the number of HTTP requests it makes for assets like images, javascript files and stylesheets. In fact, its Rule #1 on Steve Souders High Performance Web Sites. In…
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