As the size of our Ruby on Rails applications grow, so does the complexity. We’ll cover some common mistakes encountered in Rails and how to avoid them. Antipatterns are what people use whenever best practices are ignored. Learn how to identify when you’re using them and improve your Ruby code.
Ruby on Rails gives us M, V, C, routes and helpers. Some people add observers and concerns, among others. We’ve standardized on presenters. Service objects are gaining popularity. Uncle Bob wants you to add interactors, request models, response models and entities.
In the early days of a project, Rails absolutely dazzles.Tragically, the very same forces that make it so easy to add new features to a brand new Rails application are the ones that start to hold you back as the number of features grows. Your test suite gets slower and …
Ruby on Rails is huge. Even if you have worked with it for a long time, it’s unlikely that you have stumbled across everything yet. Do you really know what all of the built-in Rake tasks do? Have you seen all of the methods ActiveSupport makes available to you? Are …
Which web application development framework to use?. Simplicity, productivity, ability to deliver high quality of service (QoS), especially performance and scalability (can’t ignore that when you’re talking about 200,000+ users and expect high concurrency!) were our top criteria for framework selection. After considerable research on state-of-the-art, we zeroed in on …
This video discusses how to use JavaScript frameworks, particularly Backbone.js, with Rails. Web apps have been getting more JavaScript-heavy and nested piles of callbacks are no fun. Backbone is a backend-agnostic library that helps you impose an MVC flavor on your JavaScript. This talk covers the basic components of Backbone …
