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 ReadingRegular Expressions: Replace the Last Occurrence of a Pattern In Ruby
As of this writing, there are not a lot of great resources out there to show you how to replace the last occurrence of a pattern in any language. Here I’ll show you the Ruby version, but for the most part you can use a similar technique in other languages. We’ll begin by solving the […]
Continue ReadingGetting Started with MLS and RETS Programming
We’ve built custom sites for real estate firms before, but to create RevBroker I was tasked with taking our current implementation and turning it into a viable product that multiple brokerages could use. Here, I share the tips I learned on my confusing journey to handle MLS data and RETS programming.
Continue ReadingDuck, Duck, Ruby: Duck Typing in Ruby
The implementation of the Ruby language is built using duck typing and it would seem wise to build our Ruby applications in that way.
Continue ReadingThe Lost Art of Apprenticeship – Software Development Apprenticeship
“We know you don’t know everything, that’s cool, we are going to teach you.”
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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