Transactions in Ruby on Rails and Atomic Bugs
A few examples of when using a transaction in Ruby on Rails doesn't work as expected.
A few examples of when using a transaction in Ruby on Rails doesn't work as expected.
A tutorial on eager loading polymorphic associations with Ruby on Rails avoiding "n-plus-one" queries.
A deep dive into the performance of Fabrication and FactoryGirl.
How to use rake, rails, convert and sketch to generate a favicon.
Managing sockets, handling HTTP parsing and generation, and integrating with Rack to build a simple web server from scratch.
How to load 'N' records per parent record efficiently in Ruby on Rails
A quick introduction to using mixins with Backbone to extract out common code
Concerns offer a reusable way of sharing common code. This can be used to extract URL helpers.
Configure SSL/TLS On Heroku Using a CDN
Two awesome tools for speeding up testing are Zeus and Guard. Setting them up allows for automatic execution of tests while coding.
Deploying JRuby on Heroku used to require custom build packs. Not any more. This guide will get any JRuby app up and running in no time.
Rails is amazing and can be even better when paired with great web services. Heroku, Amazon, Zencoder, Twilio, Tropo and New Relic all fit the bill.