A Guide to Rails Engines in the Wild: Real World Examples of Rails Engines in Action
Why are Rails Engines not used more often? I don’t know the answer, but I do think that the generalization of “Everything is an Engine” has hidden the problem domains that they can help to solve.
Joe James
The Many Interpreters and Runtimes of the Ruby Programming Language
Which Ruby implementation is right for your project? While the reference implementation (Ruby MRI) remains the interpreter of choice, an alternate Ruby implementation may be right for your project, depending on your operational goals and constraints.
This article showcases the Ruby interpreter implementations and runtimes available today, discussing the advantages and disadvantages of each.
Ryan Wilcox
Buggy Code: 10 Common Rails Programming Mistakes
Rails is both easy to use—and also to misuse. Let’s look at 10 common Rails programming mistakes, explore their consequences, and discover ways to steer clear, as we write clean Ruby on Rails code.
Brian VanLoo
Adventures in GPS Programming and Development: A Geospatial Tutorial
This post explores some of the more common types of GPS tracking errors to expect with low-end GPS devices, providing an understanding of what causes them as well as some approaches for correcting them. The techniques outlined can provide users of low-end GPS devices with a reasonable level of automated improvement of the accuracy of their GPS tracks.
Tomo Krajina
Elasticsearch for Ruby on Rails: A Tutorial to the Chewy Gem
Elasticsearch provides a powerful, scalable tool for indexing and querying massive amounts of structured data, built on top of the Apache Lucene library.
Building on the foundation of Elasticsearch and the Elasticsearch-Ruby client, we’ve developed and released our own improvement (and simplification) of the Elasticsearch application search architecture that also provides tighter integration with Rails. We’ve packaged it as a Ruby gem named Chewy.
This post discusses how we accomplished this, including the technical obstacles that emerged during implementation.
Arkadiy Zabazhanov
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