Robby speaks with ten different companies about the benefits of adding Ruby on Rails to their toolset.
Healthcare on Rails: Why these 10 companies chose Ruby on Rails
2 Jun 2016
Entries tagged: ruby on rails
Continuous Deployment in Rails
2 Jun 2016
As developers, we seek tools which make our daily life easier. Over the years, our tools have improved to make one of the often complicated process of deploying our code up to various instances. Making this process as automated as possible will not only increase productivity but also prevent potentially application-breaking issues from ever getting to your remote instances.
Puma is the Preferred Web Server for Rails Developers
2 Jun 2016
Puma’s popularity as both a web and Rails server has shown steady growth toward the position of preferred tool for both roles. Growing out of the once-mighty Mongrel, Puma hails itself as "A Modern, Concurrent Web Server for Ruby". Showing significantly lower memory usage and response times than Unicorn and Passenger the communities support appears to be continuing to shift in its direction.
How long have we all been working with Ruby on Rails?
1 Jun 2016
One of the questions we asked in the recent survey was "How many years have you been developing with Ruby on Rails?". The purpose of this question is to get a very general idea of the shift in experience across the community.
PostgreSQL continues to win the hearts of the Rails community
1 Jun 2016
Since 2012, PostgreSQL has grown to be the preferred choice of Ruby on Rails developers. We've been championing it for a bit longer.
What the BLEEP is Ruby on Rails? A Project Manager's Perspective
26 May 2016
Digital project managers (DPMs) know all the infinite details of their projects from the smallest feature updates to massive project builds or overhauls. When it comes to the development languages though, sometimes DPMs are a little in the dark, and that's ok! But if your project is built or being built using Ruby on Rails, there are some things you should know about why some developers go all googly-eyed over it. And why you, as the DPM, should too.
Why is Ruby On Rails a Good Fit in 2016?
5 Apr 2016
An overview of why we use Ruby on Rails and why it is a good framework for the people we work with.
Rails Hosting Survey 2016
29 Mar 2016
The Rails Hosting Survey is back for the fourth time! This is your opportunity to share your thoughts with the community and gauge current trends in Rails hosting.
How to create an 'off' click event - the Ember way
6 Apr 2015
We’ve been working on a project recently in which our designs called for a hover dropdown menu that did not close until the user clicks outside of the drop-down. Creating something like this in jQuery and in a Ruby on Rails app would have been a no-brainer. But I quickly discovered it wasn’t going to be quite so straightforward in our new Ember app.
Easily add canonical URLs to your Rails app
4 Apr 2014
There has been a lot of talk lately about canonical URLs and how Google and other search engines would really prefer if you would use them. So, what is a canonical URL and why should you use them?