Need a Second Opinion on Your Ruby Code? Ask Crystal

When it comes to your health, you don’t hesitate to get a second opinion. Running the Crystal compiler on your Ruby code is like asking a second doctor for their opinion.

Refine Your Ruby Util Objects

For some time now I've followed a pattern of using utilities to avoid extending core Ruby objects. While this approach avoids the perils of monkey patching, the experience has always bothered me; it's not very Ruby-like.

Building a Rack Web Server in Ruby Kevin Sylvestre

Managing sockets, handling HTTP parsing and generation, and integrating with Rack to build a simple web server from scratch.

Minimal decoupled subsystems in your rails app

There are multiple ways to implement communication between two separate microservices in your application. Messaging is often the most recommended way of doing this. However, you probably heard that "You must be this tall to use microservices".

React on Rails

Reverb’s main application is a well loved Rails monolith. It serves our API and view level traffic admirably. As we’ve grown, we’ve added more interactive UI elements, and as we did we followed the Rails Way.

Building web apps with GO

GO is a newcomer to the world of programming. An open source, statically typed programming language developed by Google that provides you with some nice features like garbage collection, memory safety and facilities for writing concurrent programs.

Reflections of an "Old" Programmer

I'm at a tech conference. It's a session on React Native, and the presenter is convincing us why it's truly the "next big thing" for mobile development. To me, it seems a bit like JSPs of 15 years ago, with all the logic in the presentation code, but I'm "old", so I assume I just don't "get it".

Don't Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You

Heroic utopian grandiloquence, boastfulness, and a complete lack of reality: the business press goes wild!

opsworks_ruby

Set of chef recipes for OpsWorks based Ruby projects.