Double Shot #1572
- Introduce "Safe navigation operator" - Looks like a native ruby replacement for ActiveSupport's .try is coming.
- Basic CSS Selector Syntax Explained Using Cats - Personally, I've had enough cats on the internet, but if you haven't, here you go.
- Introducting Shrine - A file upload toolkit - Another shot at a flexible & modular upload system for ruby.
Double Shot #1571
- Rails DB - Gem that adds in-browser database editor to your Rails projects.
- Git-integrated app monitoring - Scout's new application monitoring project is shaping up very nicely. Now you can trace slowness issues back to the commit level.
- Ruby ePub: Franklin - Toolchain for going from Markdown to ebooks.
Double Shot #1570
- Chrome Devtools Tips & Tricks - There is surprising power buried in Chrome for debugging CSS, XHR, and JavaScript.
- Inesita - A tiny little ruby front-end framework.
- SourceDNA - Black-box code analysis looking for common security and other flaws in Android and iOS code.
Double Shot #1569
- Trix - Rich text WYSIWYG editor for use in HTML pages. Extracted from Basecamp.
- How to Create a Better Rails Development Environment with Docker Compose - An easier alternative to messing around with vagrant.
- How to build a basic JSON API with Rails 5 - Now that Rails API is getting integrated this is easier than ever.
Double Shot #1568
- Codacy - Automated code analysis tool that integrates with GitHub (or other repositories). Free for public repos, starting at $20/month for private repos.
- The Dynamic Def - Abusing ruby syntax for fun & interactive fiction in irb.
- Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on - The official way to ditch GA. Or, you could just run NoScript and avoid downloading their JS in the first place.
Double Shot #1567
- Front-end Handbook - Ebook of tools and practices to help you learn front-end development with web technologies.
- How to Protect Yourself from NSA Attacks on 1024-bit DH - Tidy up your in-browser crypto a bit to help keep the bastards from eavesdropping, courtesy of EFF.
- How's My SSL? - Quick check of the security of your browser settings.
Double Shot #1566
- MailyHerald - "Self-hosted Mailchimp" in a Rails engine. Remember though, if you're sending lots of email the mechanics of SMTP are really the least of your worries. Optimizing Sidekiq - A switch from Celluloid to bare threads (and notes on how to tell if it helped).
- Your Preproduction Checklist for Your Rails App - At least, from a security point of view.
Double Shot #1565
- Photon - Framework to build cross-platform desktop applications using web technologies on top of GitHub's Electron.
- Announcing SDREM - A new script to set up a Rails development environment on OS X, with a mix of open source and app store installs.
Double Shot #1564
- The Future of Web Development - React, Falcor, and ES6 - I don't think I personally want to use JS for everything in the stack, but I do like seeing people think about alternative stacks.
- How to Install Bootstrap 4 in Rails - Why wait for a gem when you can just package things up yourself?
Double Shot #1563
- rgraph - Interactive JavaScript charting library that uses the canvas tag for speed.
- Padrino 0.13.0 - New release of this web application framework built on top of the Sinatra core.
- Dasherize - Open source project dashboard, for projects you run via GitHb and some CI infrastructure.
Double Shot #1562
- Ludicrously Fast Page Loads - A Guide for Full-Stack Devs - To speed things up, you need to eventually understand what the heck the browser is doing.
- Cross-Site Request Forgery and Rails - What CSRF is and how Rails protects you from it.
- A developer's work is never done - Amen to that.
Double Shot #1561
Double Shot #1560
- Do not let your CDN betray you: Use Subresource Integrity - Something else I probably should look into during my copious spare time.
- Classic Bug Reports - Jokes, detective stories, and arguments in various bug-trackers.
- Deppbot - Service to automate updating your bundled gems. Best used in conjunction with an automatic CI service.
Double Shot #1559
- Upgrade to El Capitan, with Homebrew & Ruby and El Capitan & Homebrew - Apple continues to get more developer-hostile all the time. It's taken me a long time to reach this point, but I'm done buying Apple hardware. Time to migrate the rest of the way to Linux. As a bonus, that means I won't have to deal with Xcode and iOS any longer.
- clipboard.js - Enables copy to clipboard for web apps without Flash. Oh, unless people are using Safari, which is as stupid as the rest of Apple's ecosystem these days.
- Rails Got 99 Problems (But These Ain't Them) - Why Rails still serves as an effective development environment even though it isn't the new sexy any longer.
Double Shot #1558
- Ultimate Guide for Logging - Crowdsourced resource hosted by Loggly but with info on a bunch of different tools.
- Gitcolony - Hosted or on-premises git solution with an emphasis on code reviews.
- rails_stuff - A medley of little modules and helpers for Rails.
Double Shot #1557
- Nomad and Otto - New resource manager/scheduler and orchestration tool from Hashicorp.
- chasing the shiny and new - Thoughts on the trend in developers of always needing to be moving to the latest language.
- Monitor and analyzer your Passenger apps today with Union Station - Phusion has built a custom app monitoring solution specifically for their own server.
Double Shot #1556
- Zulip - Open source group chat from Dropbox.
- webXray - Run-it-yourself analyzer to see which web pages are pinging which trackers.
- What's new in Rails 5? - Another rundown on the major features that are coming down the pike.
Double Shot #1555
- Learn Enough Command Line to Be Dangerous - Draft ebook from Michael Hartl for you Rails developers.
- A Curl Cheat Sheet - Condensed list of the most common command line options for curl.
Double Shot #1554
- flex mock revival: flex mock 2.0 released! - One of the late Jim Weirich's gems has a new maintainer and a new version.
- mpssh - Tool for executing commands on multiple ssh servers in parallel.
- Not Very Good MRI Heap Analyzer - A way to get a look at the heap dump from a Rails application.
Double Shot #1553
- StackProf: The Holy Grail of Rails Profiling - How to get some insight into production code without bollixing it up.
- htty, the HTTP TTY - A more or less fun way to interact with web servers from the command line.
- OpenSeadragon - Pure JS image viewer offering support for high-resolution zoomable images.
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