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.
1 Jun 2016
A declining but still significant percentage of respondents to Planet Argon's Rails survey (down to 16% this year, from a high of 31% in 2009) don’t use any exception notification at all on their projects. Why turn a deaf ear to an important part of your application’s health?
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.
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.
23 May 2016
Sometimes simple ID or Class name selections are not enough. Here we see how a simple .filter() function allows for jQuery code that is both flexible and extendable.
27 Apr 2016
We are awash in a sea of options for front-end Javascript frameworks. We all want the right tool for the right job, but separating useful information from noise can be tough & choosing the "correct" technology can be a daunting task. In an attempt to not add more fuel to the fire in the everlasting Ember vs. Angular debate, here is a list of some (relatively) unbiased comparisons between two of the most popular JS frameworks that we feel accurately summarize the pros & cons that come along with the tools being used to build modern web applications today.
18 Apr 2016
11 Apr 2016
Debugging Gems in a Rails is fun and easy, when Bundler started giving me nonsensical errors I cracked it open to take peek.
8 Apr 2016
Flexbox is the answer to so many frontend developers nightly prayers. It helps with column-based layouts and has a few more tricks up its sleeve. You won't believe the part about content-ordering!
6 Apr 2016
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