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.
Kevin Sylvestre
A Ruby and Swift developer and designer.
Eager Loading Polymorphic Associations with Ruby on Rails
A tutorial on eager loading polymorphic associations with Ruby on Rails avoiding "n-plus-one" queries.
Fabrication vs FactoryGirl
A deep dive into the performance of Fabrication and FactoryGirl.
Automating Favicon Generation in Rails using Sketch
How to use rake, rails, convert and sketch to generate a favicon.
Building a Rack Web Server in Ruby
Managing sockets, handling HTTP parsing and generation, and integrating with Rack to build a simple web server from scratch.
Advanced Eager Loading in Rails
How to load 'N' records per parent record efficiently in Ruby on Rails
Mixins With Backbone Using CoffeeScript and JavaScript When Integrating With Rails
A quick introduction to using mixins with Backbone to extract out common code
Rails Concerns for URL and Path Helpers
Concerns offer a reusable way of sharing common code. This can be used to extract URL helpers.
Setup Free(ish) SSL/TLS on Heroku for Ruby on Rails (or Any Other Framework)
Configure SSL/TLS On Heroku Using a CDN
Faster Testing in Rails with Guard for Zeus, RSpec, and Cucumber
Two awesome tools for speeding up testing are Zeus and Guard. Setting them up allows for automatic execution of tests while coding.
Deploying Rails with JRuby to Heroku
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.
Must Have Services for Rails
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.