2016-03-30

Database driven scheduling with Clockwork and ActiveJob

• Ruby
• Rails

An introductory tutorial on making event scheduling management more accessible and configurable to administrators through database driven admin interfaces in Rails.

2016-01-15

Useful delegation patterns for Rails

• Ruby
• Rails

An exploration into the delegation pattern and how it can be useful in various aspects of a Rails application

2015-11-25

Boost your content focussed site with Structured Page Fragments

• Javascript
• Rails
• SPF

The context

SPF.js a lightweight javascript library to incorporate dynamic page updates that dramatically reduces perceived page latency. Quoting from the Repo Homepage:

Using progressive enhancement and HTML5, SPF integrates with your site to enable a faster, more fluid user experience by updating just the sections of the page that change during navigation, not the whole page. SPF provides a response format for sending document fragments, a robust system for script and style management, an in-memory cache, on-the-fly processing, and more.

While for complex dynamic sites which have a significant amount of client side logic, I still recommend adopting a client side javascript framework, but for content focussed sites, a nifty utility like SPF.js can be very useful.

2015-11-14

A minimal setup for using ES6 modules in Rails

• Javascript
• Rails
• ES6

`browserify-rails` + `babelify` is a hassle-free solution if you are planning to use ES6 modules with sprockets, compared to the officially recommended `sprockets-es6`.

2015-04-03

Gathering and Visualizing metrics from Rails application using InfluxDB

• Ruby
• Rails
• InfluxDB
• Grafana

2015-03-01

Dealing with JSON data in Active Admin

• Ruby
• Rails
• ActiveAdmin

2015-01-02

Leveraging the strategy pattern in Rails - I

• Ruby
• Rails
• Design Patterns

2014-09-06

Effectively debugging KnockoutJS applications.

• Ruby
• Rails

2014-09-06

Allowing multiple emails for a user in Devise

• Ruby
• Rails
• Devise
• Integration

2014-07-26

Optimizing space taken by type column in Rails STI

• Ruby
• Rails
• ActiveRecord