Rails
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Ruby

Learning Ruby on Rails with Nitrous.io
I’ve been programming a long time. I’ve written professional applications in Java, PHP, C#,ASP.NET, C++, and Silverlight. I’ve seen a…
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Good Module, Bad Module
You already know how to use modules in Ruby, but are you abusing them? In this post, we’ll take a…
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Level Up Your Security in Rails
I am not a security expert, and the truth is that most other developers aren’t either. I haven’t created my…
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Unobtrusive JavaScript via AJAX in Rails
For now, the main way to add dynamic content to a webpage is with JavaScript. Ideally, we want to update a…
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Ruby

Counting Distinct Values With HyperLogLog
Counting distinct values is a trivial matter with small datasets, but it gets dramatically harder for streams with millions of…
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Producing Documentation for Your Rails API
Why is it such a joy to work with Stripe or Shopify as a developer? It could be for a…
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Ruby

Surrogate WebSockets Alongside Rails
ActionCable is coming to Rails 5 and brings with it the promise of using WebSockets directly in Rails. Ruby has…
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An Introduction to APIs with Phoenix
Phoenix is taking the internet by storm, with good reason. It’s productive, fault-tolerant, concurrent, safe as a compiled language, and…
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Comparing Rails and Phoenix: Part II
In the first post of this two-part series, we touched on generating a new application and talked about the entry…
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