When I first decided I wanted to try being a conference speaker, Railsconf was my goal conference. When I found out I got accepted to Railsconf my first year as...
So let’s say you’ve already got your app up and running with whatever service you need and a fancy gem to help you integrate it, like Stripe or Twilio. Great!...
Ever had an app that needs to communicate with people in more ways than just shooting them an email? How about an app that can send text alerts or even...
Breaking out long lists into multiple pages that a user can click through is something that nearly every application can benefit from and it’s something that every programmer will have...
As a developer, e-commerce is unavoidable. It’s a huge part of tons of web apps and it can be daunting at first because a bug in your e-commerce functionality is...
Have you ever come across an obstacle while programming and then immediately come across a solution so elegant that you don’t know how you were surviving without knowing about it...
Not every gem has to completely revolutionize your application. Often, the beauty of using gems is having an easy to use, ready made solution for a small problem that’s making...
If the question is how to support good performance for high volume requests without bogging down your database, the answer is caching. Caching data is a powerful tool in any...
One of the major benefits of Ruby development is the use of gems – powerful self-contained libraries of code that can easily add new functionality to your Ruby or Rails...
