Author:
Tasha Schroeder
Last weekend, we hosted our second Rails Girls workshop, inviting 50 women to come to our office to learn more about web development through the lens of Ruby on Rails.
There were balloons.
And there was coffee.
But mostly, what we found was a group of smart, talented women.…
Author:
Dan Rice
Big Nerd Ranch recently sent Brian Gardner and me to the Railsberry Conference in Krakow, Poland. Having been to several Rails conferences already, I expected some technical talks, Agile process talks, and the requisite talk on refactoring.
What I found at Railsberry, which is advertised as the conference for “curious” Ruby on Rails developers, was far from formulaic and typical.…
Author:
Tasha Schroeder
How should you implement search engine optimization tactics for a Ruby on Rails application? Daniel Rice gives a high-level overview of how Ruby developers can improve SEO in their apps.…
Author:
Jay Hayes
St. Augustine, Florida, was packed with brilliant minds this past week, and I’m glad to have been a part of it. It’s a bit startling to think about all the information that was delivered and receiving during the two short days we met for Ancient City Ruby (ACR).…
Author:
Stafford Brooke
There are many options for Ruby on Rails hosting, but Heroku is one that we recommend to clients and use internally for Ruby on Rails applications. Using Heroku? There are steps you can take to get more performance out of your Heroku application.…
Author:
David Worth
Occasionally in the life-cycle of an application we find that we need two distinct domain objects to quack alike, even if their underlying structures differ greatly. Moreover, often the second, third and thirty-ninth such objects come long after the initital object entered the application.…
Author:
Brian Gardner
I have recently been hearing quite a bit about people using Rails engines. I was intrigued about how they are used and how they integrate into a Rails application, and I soon got a chance to satisfy my curiosity by working on a couple projects that used these engines.…
Author:
Zac Stewart
A while ago, I hit a lull in my skill advancement as a Rails developer. I had long since learned to think of my resources as resources. I did my best to limit my controller actions the basic CRUD methods. I considered the “fat model, skinny controller” mantra to be sacrosanct.…
Author:
Patrick Van Stee
There were some great talks at RubyConf this year, covering themes like concurrency, monitoring and architecture, among others. But there were also a number of presentations about the future of Ruby, which piece together an interesting dialog.
Ruby 2.0
Starting out with the very first presentation, Matz’s keynote took a quick look at the history of Ruby and his motivations for creating the language.…
Author:
Brian Stanwyck
As we build apps, most workflows end up basing themselves around one interface or user experience that gets priority over others. As more and more services are added, this inevitably creates problems. Building your API early helps prevent multi-platform nightmares and lets developers focus on doing what they do best.
There are (many) other advantages of building your API early.