Control the Physical World with Ruby and Artoo

Dhaivat Pandya takes you on a tour of Artoo, a Ruby-based platform aimed at making working with embedded systems and Ruby a breeze. Boop Beep Boop!

Playing with symmetric encryption algorithms in Ruby

In the times where data privacy is a headline every week it is good for software developers to have an understanding of encryption and programming

Parsing Binary Data Formats

This story started with me wanting to write a steganography tool. I needed a way to parse the binary data from an image into something I could decode

Essentials Of Cache Expiration In Rails

Considering how important caching is to a performant Rails application, it’s well worth learning. With a few fundamental concepts under your belt there’s nothing to it

Improving Rails Performance with Better Background Jobs

While upgrading infrastructure is indeed a valid option for our scalability problems, I believe most apps out there can scale just as well with code alone

Contributing to Open-Source

My colleague Ken and I decided to reach out to the Inkpress CMS primary maintainer to get his thoughts on making some contributions that we felt would improve not only his software, but also improve ours in the process

5 Tips for Writing a Legible Regexp

Regular expressions can be tricky to write and downright impossible to read. They can also be incredibly useful. Striking a balance between power and legibility is achievable. Here are five of the best ways I know to do it.

AptWatcher

AptWatcher is a simple Sinatra app that helps you keep track of packages that need updating on your servers