A Comprehensive Guide to Interacting With IMAP Using Ruby

A few times in the past I've had to interact with IMAP via Ruby, and wrapping your head around its API is not so easy. Not only is the IMAP API a bit obscure and cryptic, but Ruby's IMAP documentation is not so great either.

4 Ways To Avoid Monkey Patching

In Ruby land, monkey patching is the act of modifying the methods on someone else’s class.Ruby makes it easy to add, remove, and replace methods on any class  – even core classes like Array – but it is generally frowned upon.

Learn Concurrency by Making a Countdown Latch in Ruby

A Countdown Latch is a concurrency abstraction that allows one or more threads to wait until all other threads are done with what they are doing.

3 pleasantly surprising PostgreSQL Indexing tricks

In this article we will go through some know the trade-offs between having and not having an index. Or why an index on a low-cardinality column might not help.

Thinking Sphinx search one model with two indices with static attributes

In this short article I describe how to use Sphinx and Thinking Sphinx (v3) in a Ruby on Rails application to index the same ActiveRecord model with separate criterias using two indices.

Tic Tac Toe Game in Rails 5 with Action Cable

One of Rails 5 new features is Action Cable, although it is fun to make a chat app for demonstration, making a Tic Tac Toe game is even more fun.

Flirting with Crystal, a Rubyist Perspective

quick introduction to Crytal and it's core concepts and comparison with some other popular technologies.

The Broken Window Theory In Design & Product Development

What is broken window theory, how was it used to bring down crime rates and how can we apply it to product development.

Temple

emple is an abstraction and a framework for compiling templates to pure Ruby. It's all about making it easier to experiment, implement and optimize template languages.