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Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski, Feb 09

Feature Tests with RSpec: Simulate User Behavior and Test Your Ruby App

Feature (or integration) tests are probably the most interesting type of all. In these tests, you are simulating users' behavior and checking that an app is working as expected. In...

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Jesse Novotny, Dec 19

Setting Up an Angular SPA on Rails with Devise and Bootstrap

Jesse Novotny provides a walkthrough for setting up an Angular single page app on Rails with Devise and Bootstrap.

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Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski, Nov 12

Setting Up Automated Testing with RSpec

Automated testing is really widespread these days and of course Ruby has its own set of tools. One of these is RSpec, an insanely popular tool for automated testing. The good thing...

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Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski, Oct 13

Local Variable Scope in Ruby and How to Get Around It

Any serious Ruby developer has to understand what the scope is and how relates to variables. However, did you know that local variables can actually be smuggled between scopes easily...

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David Bush, Dec 19

Lexers, Parsers, and ASTs, OH MY!: How Ruby Executes

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Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski, Sep 23

Discovering the Differences Between Blocks, Procs and Lambdas

Ruby developers love blocks and use them every day, however in many cases the blocks are executing immediately. What if you'd like to execute the block later? In this video we are...

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Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski, Dec 12

Common Rails Security Pitfalls and Their Solutions

Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski walks through 10 common security issues when using Rails and how to avoid and manage each one.

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Fred Heath, 4 days ago

Master Many-to-Many Associations with ActiveRecord

Fred Heath discusses the many different many-to-many associations and how to handle each with ActiveRecord.

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Jesse Novotny, Dec 19

Setting Up an Angular SPA on Rails with Devise and Bootstrap

Jesse Novotny provides a walkthrough for setting up an Angular single page app on Rails with Devise and Bootstrap.

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David Bush, Dec 19

Lexers, Parsers, and ASTs, OH MY!: How Ruby Executes

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Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski, Dec 12

Common Rails Security Pitfalls and Their Solutions

Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski walks through 10 common security issues when using Rails and how to avoid and manage each one.

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Tim Evko, Dec 06

Versioning Show, Episode 19, with Glenn Goodrich

In this episode, Tim and David are joined by Glenn Goodrich, aka Ruprict, a developer by day and SitePoint's Ruby Channel editor by night.

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Glenn Goodrich, Dec 05

5 Ruby Resources for the Hour of Code

Over the last couple of years, I've been an active participant in the Hour of Code. If you're unfamiliar with the Hour of Code, here's a blurb from its site: The Hour of Code...

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Parth Modi, Dec 01

N + 1: When More Queries Is a Good Thing

Parth Modi explains how he discovered that fixing the N + 1 Query Problem isn't always about reducing the number of queries. Sometimes, more queries is better.

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Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski, Nov 28

Video Uploads with Rails and Ziggeo

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Glenn Goodrich, Nov 24

The Conventions of Contributing to Open Source

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Jeff Smith, Nov 23

Talk with the Experts: Glenn Goodrich

This is a recap of our recent AMA with Glenn Goodrich, our Ruby channel editor and author behind Rails: Novice to Ninja on SitePoint.

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Ardian Haxha, Nov 21

Five Trending Open Source Projects That Use Ruby

Ardian Haxha details five of the most popular open source Ruby projects on Github.

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Vinoth, Nov 17

Leverage Heroku's Metrics for Better App Performance

Vinoth shows you what the Heroku Metrics Dashboard displays and then runs through some scenarios on improving performance using these metrics.

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David Bush, Nov 14

Rack-App: A Performant and Pragmatic Web Microframework

David Bush introduces Rack-App, a web microframework in Ruby that has a single dependency, can handle thousands of endpoints, and is among the fastest around.

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Glenn Goodrich, Nov 14

From Novice to Ninja: How to Master Using Plugins in Rails

Rails: Novice to Ninja: The plugins architecture of Rails warrants attention, and this excerpt gives detailed insight to master the use of plugins in Rails.

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Viktoria Kotsurenko, Nov 10

7 Design Patterns to Refactor MVC Components in Rails

Viktoria Kotsurenko explains seven very useful design patterns and how they can be applied to MVC components in Rails to make your app more maintainable.

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Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski, Nov 07

Real-Time Messaging with Rails and ActionCable

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Viktoria Kotsurenko, Nov 03

The Basics of MVC in Rails: Skinny Everything

Viktoria Kotsurenko reviews some of the basics of MVC in Rails, showing why everything should be skinny.

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Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski, Oct 31

Build a Messaging System with Rails and ActionCable

Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski pens the first of a two-part series building a complete messaging system with Rails and ActionCable.

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Glenn Goodrich, Oct 27

Why Learning Rails Is Still a Great Choice in 2016

Given that software is changing at the speed of light, how can something like Rails an object-oriented language persevere? Is it worth learning? Yes!

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Sarmad Sabih, Oct 24

10 Ruby on Rails Best Practices

Sarmad Sabih runs through some of his favorite best practices for Rails applications.

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Vinoth, Oct 20

Password-Less Authentication in Rails

Password-less authentication is becoming more popular, and Vinoth shows you how to do it from scratch in Rails.

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Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski, Oct 17

Learn Ruby Metaprogramming for Great Good

Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski offers a clean example of good metaprogramming in Ruby.

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Kingsley Silas, Oct 13

DRY Off Your Rails Code with ActiveSupport::Concerns

One of Rails' best conventions for DRYing up your code is ActiveSupport::Concern. Kingsley Silas shows you how to use it.

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David Bush, Oct 10

Diving into How Hashes Work in Ruby

David Bush dives into the internals of how hashes work in Ruby, including a neat experiment to drive home the point.

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Common Rails Security Pitfalls and Their Solutions

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Feature Tests with RSpec: Simulate User Behavior and Test Your Ruby App

Setting Up an Angular SPA on Rails with Devise and Bootstrap

Setting Up Automated Testing with RSpec

Local Variable Scope in Ruby and How to Get Around It

Lexers, Parsers, and ASTs, OH MY!: How Ruby Executes

Discovering the Differences Between Blocks, Procs and Lambdas

Common Rails Security Pitfalls and Their Solutions

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Master Many-to-Many Associations with ActiveRecord

Setting Up an Angular SPA on Rails with Devise and Bootstrap

Lexers, Parsers, and ASTs, OH MY!: How Ruby Executes

Common Rails Security Pitfalls and Their Solutions

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5 Ruby Resources for the Hour of Code

N + 1: When More Queries Is a Good Thing

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