Make HTML Email Development in Rails Better With These Tools
Get ready for some less painful HTML email development in Rails with these tricks, tools, and an example app from CJ.
Continue Reading 5 Essential Rails App Performance Optimization Tools
Adam shares 5 essential Rails App Performance Optimization Tools to help investigate slow performance, because it’s not always obvious what’s slowing down your Rails app.
Continue ReadingPull Request Linting as a Service: Lintron is Revelry’s Code Review Robot
I’m here to tell you the story of Lintron, our pull request linting robot.
Lintron is a tool that I wrote which automatically lints all code in all of our
pull requests at Revelry. We’ve been using it constantly since May and we’ve had
amazing results.
Making a Rails App Without a Database or ActiveRecord
Occasionally, you may want to build a Rails app without ActiveRecord or a database. Your application might only store data using third party APIs, or might not have any persistent data at all. Since Rails optimizes for the most common case (a database-backed app), it refuses to start the server without a database connection by default.
Continue ReadingSkinny Everything (Part 1 of 3)
While it is definitely good to have a slim controller for sake of code reusability, readability, and testing, it is also good to have a skinny model (for the exact same reasons). In fact, its just good to have a skinny everything.
Continue ReadingRails 4.2 Overview, Part 2 of 2
This is part 2 in our overview of what is new in Rails 4.2. You can find part 1 here. Part 1 covers ActiveJob, GlobalID and #deliver_later.
In this installment, we will cover Adequate Record, Web Console, and some general thoughts on Rails 4.2
Continue ReadingRails 4.2 Overview, Part 1 of 2
A new version of Rails is right around the corner, so I wanted to take this opportunity to cover three of the five biggest features in Rails 4.2.
We’ll cover the others, plus some miscellaneous items in the second installment of our Rails 4.2 overview.
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