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rails

Rails Inflections: The Magic Behind Singular and Plural Transformation

Published: 29 Apr 2025
Author: Sujay Prabhu
Senior System Analyst

Learn how Rails Inflector handles singular and plural forms with customizable rules

hotwire rails stimulus

Unleash the Power of Hotwire(Part 2): Getting Started with Stimulus

Published: 17 Apr 2025
Author: Satya Swaroop Mohapatra
Senior System Analyst

Learn the fundamentals of Stimulus, the lightweight JavaScript framework that complements Hotwire. Start with the basics and build your understanding step by step.

auth0 auth0-action

Auth0 actions

Published: 28 Mar 2025
Author: Mohammad hussain
System Analyst

This blog explains how to configure Auth0 actions, specifically focusing on using the Post-Login action to restrict access based on the user's email domain during social logins, such as with Google.

ai orchestrator agents tools

Understanding AI Orchestrators, Agents, Tools, and Workflow Automation

Published: 12 Mar 2025
Author: Nitturu Baba
System Analyst

Discover how AI orchestrators, agents, and tools work together to automate workflows, enabling AI to interact with real-world systems efficiently. Learn how this structured approach enhances productivity and reduces manual effort.

ai ai_sdk nest_js

Enhancing AI Capabilities with Tool Calling

Published: 03 Mar 2025
Author: Nitturu Baba
System Analyst

Supercharging AI with Tool Calling in NestJS Using AI-SDK

rails asset-pipeline web-development

Understanding the Rails Asset Pipeline

Published: 04 Feb 2025
Author: Aditya Vishwakarma
System Analyst

A comprehensive guide to understanding the Rails Asset Pipeline, its features, and its role in modern web development.

next-js-15 cache

Next.js 15

Published: 17 Dec 2024
Author: Aman Suhag
System Analyst

Explore the caching strategy updates introduced in Next.js 15

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Row level security in Postgres

Published: 17 Nov 2024
Author: Sujay Prabhu
Senior System Analyst

Explore how to implement Row Level Security (RLS) in Postgres

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Keycloak Single Sign-On Integration with Rails using omniauth-keycloak gem

Published: 14 Nov 2024
Author: Sachin Kabadi
System Analyst

This guide walks you through setting up Keycloak locally using Docker, creating a realm, user, client and integrating Keycloak with a Rails application using the omniauth-keycloak gem for single sign-on (SSO).

rails rspec rack webmock

Mock External Services in Rails with WebMock and Rack

Published: 10 Nov 2024
Author: Sujay Prabhu
Senior System Analyst

Discover how to mock external services in Rails application using WebMock and Rack to simplify testing

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Implementing Retrieval-Augmented Generation with LangChain, Pgvector and OpenAI

Published: 24 Oct 2024
Author: Adithya Hebbar
System Analyst

Learn how to implement Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) using LangChain, Pgvector, and OpenAI to store document embeddings and generate context-aware responses

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Understanding Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with OpenAI

Published: 17 Sep 2024
Author: Adithya Hebbar
System Analyst

Explore how to enhance language models using Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with OpenAI's API.

react-query server-state-management data-fetching

Managing Server State in React Application using React-Query

Published: 17 Sep 2024
Author: Anujeet Swain
System Analyst

Explore how TanStack React Query simplifies server state management in React applications, covering topics such as caching, deduplication and state syncronization.

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Organizing ActiveRecord Models into a Tree Structure with the Ancestry Gem in Rails

Published: 12 Sep 2024
Author: Giritharan
System Analyst

This blog explains how to organize ActiveRecord models into a tree structure using the Ancestry gem in Rails to manage parent-child hierarchical structures. It covers the setup, features, and querying methods that make managing hierarchical data both simple and efficient.

aws cognito authentication lambda

Passwordless Authentication Flow in Cognito User Pool

Published: 21 Aug 2024
Author: Adithya Hebbar
System Analyst

Learn the steps and implementation of a passwordless authentication flow using AWS Cognito and custom Lambda functions.

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Understanding Database Connections in Rails

Published: 14 Jul 2024
Author: Giritharan
System Analyst

A comprehensive guide to database connections in Rails. Learn about configuring credentials, establishing TCP connections, setting session parameters, managing authentication, and optimizing performance with connection pooling. Understand how to ensure efficient communication between your Rails application and the database.

react capacitorjs android ios

How to Convert a React App to Native Mobile Apps Using Capacitor.js

Published: 08 Jul 2024
Author: Adithya Hebbar
System Analyst

A detailed guide on converting a React app to native Android and iOS apps using Capacitor.js.

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Unleash the Power of Hotwire(Part 1)

Published: 20 May 2024
Author: Satya Swaroop Mohapatra
Senior System Analyst

A detailed guide to Hotwire in Rails exploring turbo-drive, turbo-frames and turbo-streams. Learn how to build blazing-fast applications with real-time updates without full page reloads.

rails zeitwerk

Rails Autoloading - Classic and Zeitwerk

Published: 06 May 2024
Author: Sujay Prabhu
Senior System Analyst

Discover the evolution from Rails Classic autoloader to the dynamic Zeitwerk.

Next.js vitest react-testing-library

How to setup vitest in Next.js 14

Published: 26 Apr 2024
Author: Rishav Raj
System Analyst

A detailed guide on setting up Vitest in Next.js 14.

nextjs contentful i18n i18next

NextJS Integration with Contentful

Published: 20 Apr 2024
Author: Vaibhav Yadav
Senior System Analyst

A detailed guide on integrating NextJS with Contentful, utilizing i18n for internationalization and Contentful's Content Delivery API for content management.

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Next js 14 intercepting routes

Published: 19 Apr 2024
Author: Rishav Raj
System Analyst

Introduction to nextjs 14 intercepting routes

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Setting Up Google Sign-In in a Next.js App

Published: 19 Apr 2024
Author: Syed Sibtain
System Analyst

Elevate your Next.js app's security and user experience with seamless Google Sign-In integration in this step-by-step guide.

github github-actions CI/CD testing automation

Running GitHub Actions Locally with act - A Comprehensive Guide

Published: 20 Mar 2024
Author: Mahesh Bhosle
DevOps Engineer

Exploring way to run Github actions locally with act.

auth0 custom-actions

Exploring Auth0 Custom Actions

Published: 14 Mar 2024
Author: Ayush Srivastava
System Analyst

A look at how to create, manage, and utilize custom actions in various workflows, including login/post-login, machine-to-machine, password reset, pre and post-user registration, and sending phone messages.

react-hook-form react headlessui

How to implement react hook form with headlessui

Published: 22 Feb 2024
Author: Rishav Raj
System Analyst

Implement react hook form with headlessui

nextjs react data-fetching

Data Fetching Strategies in Next.js and Their Impact on Page Rendering and Performance

Published: 20 Feb 2024
Author: Ashwani Kumar Jha
Senior System Analyst

Explore Next.js data fetching strategies for efficient page rendering and performance. From pre-rendering, server-side rendering, to static-site generation to incorporating time-based and on-demand revalidation for real-time updates.

CI/CD DevOps Fly.io GitHub Actions Automation

Streamlining Development

Published: 15 Feb 2024
Author: Satya Swaroop Mohapatra
Senior System Analyst

Learn how to optimize your development workflow by automatically setting up preview environments in fly.io whenever a pull request is opened. This blog post provides step-by-step guidance on configuring a preview app and a preview db in fly.io.

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Using AWS S3 with Rails ActiveStorage for File Uploads

Published: 15 Feb 2024
Author: Sachin Kabadi
System Analyst

Guide to Setting Up AWS S3 Bucket for Rails Active Storage File Uploads

nextjs react server-actions

Server Actions in Next.js 14

Published: 08 Feb 2024
Author: Ashwani Kumar Jha
Senior System Analyst

Dive into Server Actions in Next.js 14. This post covers everything from syntax and setup to dynamic content updates, learn about form submission handling, network requests, and strategies for seamless user experiences.

caching performance

An Introduction to Caching

Published: 05 Feb 2024
Author: Ayush Srivastava
System Analyst

Concepts and techniques of caching, a vital strategy for enhancing the performance of software systems.

package manager node

npm vs Yarn vs pnpm

Published: 24 Jan 2024
Author: Syed Sibtain
System Analyst

Compare npm, Yarn, and pnpm effortlessly for smarter package management decisions

data-management react glideapps

Exploring the GlideApps Data Grid React Package

Published: 17 Jan 2024
Author: Syed Sibtain
System Analyst

Experience unparalleled performance, rich rendering, and full TypeScript support with the GlideApps Data Grid React package.

dart asynchrony streams

Asynchronous programming in Dart - Streams (Part II)

Published: 08 Jan 2024
Author: Sujay Prabhu
Senior System Analyst

Explore Streams in Dart, their types, creation techniques, and best practices for seamless asynchronous event handling.

dart asynchrony

Asynchronous programming in Dart (Part I)

Published: 25 Dec 2023
Author: Sujay Prabhu
Senior System Analyst

Explore the essentials of asynchronous programming in Dart, from Isolates to Async/Await, and unravel the secrets of efficient, non-blocking code execution.

i18n internationalization gatsby react

Unlocking Global Reach

Published: 21 Oct 2023
Author: Syed Sibtain
System Analyst

Explore a comprehensive guide to Internationalization (i18n) in web development, including its significance, implementation in React and Gatsby, advantages, performance considerations, and optimization

cms website content

A Guide to Efficient Website Management

Published: 16 Oct 2023
Author: Syed Sibtain
System Analyst

Discover the potential of CMS for managing websites; its user-friendly, economical, and SEO-friendly.

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Understanding How Strapi Works

Published: 16 Oct 2023
Author: Syed Sibtain
System Analyst

Unlock the potential of Strapi, the innovative headless CMS, with this guide. Explore its unique features, setup, content management, and API creation.

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Understanding basic CSS Units for web design and bridging the gap between Designer and Developers.

Published: 28 Sep 2023
Author: Mehrukh
System Analyst

A comprehensive guide for understanding the basic concepts of px, em, and rem units. Also learn about Tailwind config and how to use Figma's developer mode to close the gap between designers and developers.

terminal commands cli

Command the Command Line

Published: 13 Sep 2023
Author: Ashwani Kumar Jha
Senior System Analyst

Understand the Terminal, and its importance. Explore basics like opening tabs, listing files, navigating, and running commands. Master file operations, file viewing, searching, and much more.

nextjs mdx contentlayer nextmdx

Next MDX vs Next Contentlayer

Published: 11 Sep 2023
Author: Vaibhav Yadav
Senior System Analyst

A comparative overview of Next MDX and Next Contentlayer

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How do we automate OTP using gmail tester in cypress & playwright e2e test

Published: 27 Aug 2023
Author: Rishav Raj
System Analyst

Automate OTP verification using the gmail-tester library in combination with Cypress and Playwright E2E tests

javascript gatsby react

How Does Gatsby Work ?

Published: 26 Aug 2023
Author: Rohit S & Ayush Srivastava

A high level overview of how gatsby works.

typescript javascript

Typescript 5

Published: 21 Aug 2023
Author: Mainak Das
Senior System Analyst

New features and improvements for typescript 5.x

api-performance

Percentiles in Performance Testing

Published: 18 Aug 2023
Author: Sujay Prabhu
Senior System Analyst

Understanding percentiles w.r.t performance

performance chrome profiling

Chrome Profiler, A Complete Guide

Published: 18 Aug 2023
Author: Syed Sibtain
System Analyst

Optimizing Web Performance Through Profiling and Analysis

playwright cypress testing e2e

Testing Simplified

Published: 29 Jul 2023
Author: Satya Swaroop Mohapatra
Senior System Analyst

Simplify your testing journey by comparing the strengths and weaknesses of Playwright and Cypress, and discover the testing tool that perfectly aligns with your needs.

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Streamlining User Access To OpenVPN A Step-by-Step Guide To Setting Up SSO For Your OpenVPN Server with Keycloak

Published: 14 Jul 2023
Author: Vivek Matthew

Using a PAM module and Keycloak for authenticating connections to OpenVPN

javascript web-security meetup

XSS attacks

Published: 07 Jul 2023
Author: Sujay Prabhu
Senior System Analyst

Exploring XSS Attacks and Expanding Security Knowledge through meetup

cypress ethereal imapflow testing e2e

How to Test Received Emails with Cypress, Ethereal, and ImapFlow

Published: 26 Jun 2023
Author: Ashwani Kumar Jha
Senior System Analyst

Master email testing using Cypress, Ethereal, and ImapFlow to ensure accurate and reliable communication in our web applications.

javascript server-side-rendering client-side-rendering

What is the Difference between Server Side Rendering and Client Side Rendering

Published: 17 Mar 2023
Author: Ayush Srivastava
System Analyst

Understanding the key differences between rendering methods for Single Page Applications

optimization ab testing

A Beginners Guide to A/B Testing

Published: 13 Mar 2023
Author: Syed Sibtain
System Analyst

Test, compare, and optimize

javascript event-loop asynchronous-functions

How Asynchronous JavaScript Works

Published: 26 Oct 2022
Author: Vinay Sripath S

Understanding how JavaScript works behind the scenes and handles asynchronous functions

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Developing a design system, a design developer collabration

Published: 10 Oct 2022
Author: Jawakar Durai and Syed Sibtain

Building and scaling a design system with Figma, React and Storybook

javascript debugging react gatsby netlify

The Way of the Frontend Debugging

Published: 28 Sep 2022
Author: Jawakar Durai

An attempt to put together some debugging experiences, techniques and tools for frontend

react redux redux-saga

Exploring the power of Redux-Saga by implementing cancellable polling.

Published: 26 Sep 2022
Author: Syed Sibtain and Jawakar Durai

An amazing alternative solution to websockets

css design parallax

Overcoming the challenges associated with Parallax Scrolling

Published: 07 Sep 2022
Author: Syed Sibtain and Jawakar Durai

Understanding and examining the pros and cons of the parallax scrolling strategies that can be used

aws github-actions secrets

Secret Injection for Github Actions using AWS Secret Manager

Published: 16 Aug 2022
Author: Rishabh Nama

Fetch secrets from AWS secrets manager and inject them securely into your Github actions

strapi sentry

Integrate Sentry With Strapi

Published: 10 May 2022
Author: Sujay Prabhu
Senior System Analyst

Ways of integrating Sentry with Strapi

Strapi

Authenticated Requests to Strapi

Published: 21 Apr 2022
Author: Sujay Prabhu
Senior System Analyst

Making requests to Strapi endpoints as an authenticated user

javascript

Tagged Templates

Published: 09 Apr 2022
Author: Rohit S

Understanding and exploring the applications built with tagged templates

netlify gitlab ci/cd

Netlify Deployment Previews for Self-hosted GitLab on Private Network

Published: 18 Mar 2022
Author: Vivek Matthew

Deploying to Netlify from a private, self-hosted GitLab instance

strapi

Strapi Local Plugin Development

Published: 14 Sep 2021
Author: Sujay Prabhu
Senior System Analyst

Local plugin development in strapi

nodejs gitlab ci/cd artifacts release

How to Release Artifacts Using Gitlab CICD

Published: 31 Aug 2021
Author: Vaibhav Yadav
Senior System Analyst

A guide on how to publish your generated artifacts using Gitlab CI/CD pipeline.

reactjs jest react-testing-library

Test cases using Jest and React Testing Library

Published: 09 Jul 2021
Author: Satya Swaroop Mohapatra
Senior System Analyst

Setup and write test cases in react using Jest and React testing library

reactjs

Batching in React

Published: 29 Jun 2021
Author: Sujay Prabhu
Senior System Analyst

Difference in batch updates before and after React18

redis

Understanding how Redis eviction policies work

Published: 21 May 2021
Author: Sreenadh TC

Redis can be used as an LRU cache with right kind of eviction policy. We can have some fun figuring out how this actually works

rails Gitlab CI

Guide to set up Gitlab CI for Rails tests

Published: 14 May 2021
Author: Menuba Tenny

Learn to run rails test on Gitlab CI pipeline

elixir redis

Working around rate limiting external apis with Elixir

Published: 20 Apr 2021
Author: Sreenadh TC

Fetch movie rating from several API without hitting rate limits on failure retries

reactjs

Using Index of an array as KEY Can Lead to Bad Consequences

Published: 14 Apr 2021
Author: Sujay Prabhu
Senior System Analyst

Ways of implementing keys and cases in which index can be used as key and vice-versa

elixir otp agent genserver

Real world usecase for GenServer and Agent in Elixir

Published: 28 Aug 2020
Author: Sreenadh TC

Understand Agents in Elixir with a real world use case of refreshing OAuth2 access token

elixir ecto recursion transaction

What I Learned while working on an Elixir App

Published: 28 Aug 2020
Author: Atul Bhosale

Learn tips about working on an Elixir App

vault devops aws kms hashicorp

Poor Man's High Availability Vault Server With Auto Unseal Using KMS

Published: 24 Aug 2020
Author: Ananth Kamath
System Analyst

Achieve high availability for vault server with auto unseal using KMS

elixir phoenix ecto

Nuances of Elixir Releases for Phoenix Applications

Published: 18 Aug 2020
Author: Sreenadh TC

Understand some of the scenarios of deploying a Phoenix application using Elixir Releases

ruby gems package management

Diving into the internals of Gem packaging

Published: 17 Aug 2020
Author: George Thomas

elixir ecto recursion

A real world use case with Elixir Recursion

Published: 29 Jul 2020
Author: Atul Bhosale

Learn to solve a business use case with Elixir Recursion

graphql reactjs javascript apollo

A Full Stack Guide to Graphql

Published: 15 Jul 2020
Author: Jawakar Durai

Build a React app with graphql.

devops

Auto Deploy to Heroku Using Gitlab CI

Published: 26 Jun 2020
Author: Revath S Kumar

Auto Deploy to Heroku Using Gitlab CI

vault bastion devops aws ssh

SSH Access Management - Control SSH Access With Vault OTP Engine (PART 2)

Published: 04 May 2020
Author: Ananth Kamath
System Analyst

vault bastion devops aws ssh

SSH Access Management - Control SSH Access With Vault OTP Engine (PART 1)

Published: 28 Apr 2020
Author: Ananth Kamath
System Analyst

devops kubernetes secrets gitops argocd

Encrypting and storing Kubernetes secrets in Git

Published: 27 Apr 2020
Author: Atul Bhosale

Learn how to encrypt & store Kubernetes secrets in Git

graphql elixir phoenix

A Full Stack Guide to Graphql

Published: 20 Mar 2020
Author: Jawakar Durai

Build a full-blown GraphQL service which will let you query, change and create records in the database using elixir's web framework

javascript graphql nodejs

The Full-Stack guide to GraphQL

Published: 06 Mar 2020
Author: Jawakar Durai

Build a full-blown GraphQL service which will let you query, change and create records in the database

elixir

Extract data from a QR code in Elixir

Published: 27 Feb 2020
Author: Atul Bhosale

Learn to extract data from a QR code in Elixir

chrome javascript

A quick introduction to parallelism in JavaScript

Published: 17 Feb 2020
Author: Jawakar Durai

Use web workers to spawn computationally expensive background tasks without interrupting the user interface workflows

elixir

Overlap an image over a QR code using Mogrify

Published: 02 Jan 2020
Author: Atul Bhosale

Learn to overlap an image over QR code using Mogrify in Elixir

rails

Decluttering Translations in Rails Apps

Published: 12 Nov 2019
Author: Manu Raj

Approaches for clean rails translation files as application grows

ruby

Sorbet - A static type checker for Ruby

Published: 12 Aug 2019
Author: Akshay Sasidharan

Adopting and incorporating a gradual type system for Ruby

webpack phoenix

Switching an existing Phoenix app from Brunch to Webpack

Published: 03 Oct 2018
Author: Atul Bhosale

Learn to switch an existing Phoenix app from Brunch to Webpack

ruby

Ruby 2.5 adds KeyError#receiver and KeyError#key

Published: 06 Aug 2018
Author: Atul Bhosale

Learn about KeyError#receiver which returns receiver associated with the KeyError object & KeyError#key returns the key which caused the exception

ruby

Ruby 2.6 added options to Exception#full_message

Published: 30 Jul 2018
Author: Atul Bhosale

Learn about options which Expection#full_message accepts

rails

Using Pundit for authorization in Rails - recipes and best practices

Published: 29 Jul 2018
Author: Akshay Sasidharan

Make better authorization for your application.

ruby

Frozen middleware with Rack freeze

Published: 07 Jun 2018
Author: Atul Bhosale

Learn about freezing middleware with rack-freeze

chrome firefox browser-extension

Interceptor

Published: 24 Apr 2018
Author: Amit Bhavikatti

Introducing Interceptor - A browser extension that mocks backend responses and how to use it.

ruby

RubySpec for Tracepoint

Published: 26 Feb 2018
Author: Atul Bhosale

Learn more about ruby by contributing to RubySpec

elixir docker distribution

Elixir Remote Debugging

Published: 22 Nov 2017
Author: Emil Soman

Learn how to connect to a production Elixir node from the local shell and use the debugger GUI to set breakpoints and debug.

reactjs

ReactJS

Published: 03 Jun 2017
Author: Revath S Kumar

deployment

Autodeploy from github using AWS CodeDeploy

Published: 26 Dec 2016
Author: Revath S Kumar

elixir phoenix

Elixir/Phoenix deployments using Distillery

Published: 26 Nov 2016
Author: Yuva
Co-founder

Deploy Elixir/Phoenix apps using Distillery plugin

reactjs

React.js

Published: 16 Sep 2016
Author: Revath S Kumar

rails api

APIs supporting snake_case and camelCase with Rails

Published: 25 Aug 2016
Author: Yuva
Co-founder

Supporting API conventions for client like reactjs can be quite tricky. This post talks about approach to make APIs accessible using snakecase or camelCase.

docker

Continuous Deployment using Docker Cloud

Published: 25 Jul 2016
Author: Emil Soman

rails

Working with Rails, Webpack and Heroku

Published: 08 Apr 2016
Author: Kashyap

Deploying a Rails app with Webpack asset management on Heroku can be tricky. However, Heroku provides lifecycle hooks on its NodeJs buildpack that will help make this easier.

elixir

Understanding Exit Signals in Erlang/Elixir

Published: 29 Feb 2016
Author: Emil Soman

Erlang is a powerful concurrent programming language that has Processes as a first class citizen. These are isolated by default. Just like in Unix, these processes can communicate using Signals. In this post we will see how to achieve that in Elixir.

elixir

Visualizing Parallel Requests in Elixir

Published: 15 Jan 2016
Author: Emil Soman

Elixir, built on the battle-tested Erlang VM, is a language that has concurrency as its core ideas. I will introduce a monitoring utility shipped with the VM that helps us visualize HTTP requests.

rails

New in ActiveRecord

Published: 23 Dec 2015
Author: Kashyap

Rails 5 has a new feature added to ActiveRecord that makes working with batch data much more efficient. The `Model.in_batches` function passes a batch of records wrapped inside an ActiveRecord collection.

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Say goodbye to vendor prefixes with Autoprefixer

Published: 25 Sep 2015
Author: Girish

Autoprefixer is a tool that adds vendor prefixes to CSS based on the usage patterns and current state of support. This results in clean code and smaller CSS files.

ruby cpu profiler

DIY Ruby CPU profiling - Part IV

Published: 18 Jul 2015
Author: Emil Soman

Ruby's TracePoint API is very powerful for building custom profilers. As the final post of the DIY CPU profiler series, this post will introduce how to get method runtime statistics and generate relevant graphs.

ruby cpu profiler

DIY Ruby CPU profiling - Part III

Published: 15 Apr 2015
Author: Emil Soman

Ruby's TracePoint API is very powerful for building custom profilers. In this post I will talk about hooking into Ruby code execution life cycle using this API

ruby cpu profiler

DIY Ruby CPU profiling - Part II

Published: 12 Mar 2015
Author: Emil Soman

Ruby's TracePoint API is very powerful for building custom profilers. In this post I will talk about Wall time and CPU time, and how to measure them for Ruby programs.

ruby cpu profiler

DIY Ruby CPU profiling - Part I

Published: 06 Mar 2015
Author: Emil Soman

Ruby's TracePoint API is very powerful and allows us to write custom profiling code without slowing down the execution of programs. In this post, I will introduce CPU profiling and 2 strategies to write one.

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Cake walk

Published: 10 Dec 2014
Author: Yuva
Co-founder

Traditionally, Rails 3.x and above come with Sprockets and asset management functions. However, using a JavaScript or CSS library with Sprockets means we'd have to roll them into gems with a specific directory heirarchy. Instead, we can leverage Bower to handle that for us.

outsourcing startup india

What you need to know about software process and tools as a non-tech product owner - Part 2

Published: 11 Jun 2014
Author: Hemant

knowledge-sharing startup-culture git

Using Git for Knowledge sharing

Published: 01 May 2014
Author: Hemant

json api ruby

An Introduction to JSON Schema

Published: 05 Apr 2014
Author: Kashyap

JSON schema can help bring order to handling complex JSON interactions in APIs. For instance, you can avoid checking the types of incoming JSON and rely on JSON schema to do the validation. This post talks about similar usecases.

outsourcing startup india

What you need to know about software process and tools as a non-tech product owner - Part 1

Published: 02 Apr 2014
Author: Hemant

rails rspec

Form object validations in Rails 4

Published: 22 Mar 2014
Author: Yuva
Co-founder

Interacting with complex web forms tends to become hairy pretty quickly. Using Form or Service objects to abstract out the complexity can help wrangle complexity. This post talks about how we use them to make code simpler.

outsourcing startup india

Design and Development Process

Published: 29 Jan 2014
Author: Hemant

outsourcing startup india

Making an Indian agency work for your startup

Published: 21 Jan 2014
Author: Hemant

ruby rails tips

Random Ruby tips from trenches #1

Published: 07 Jan 2014
Author: Hemant

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CSS3 Box Model behaviour

Published: 17 Nov 2013
Author: Vijay Sharma

CSS Box Model is one of the fundamental concepts layout inside a browser. In this post you'll learn about the box-sizing property.

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Rendering images for Retina or any high DPI screens.

Published: 03 Nov 2013
Author: Vijay

There is a proliferation of high resolution screens on mobile devices, and non-optimized images tend to look ugly on them. This post introduces ways to use optimized images for use in HTML on high DPI screens.

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Setting up Emacs as Ruby development environment on OSX

Published: 17 Oct 2013
Author: Hemant

rails code-walkthrough

How rails reloads your source code in development mode?

Published: 03 Oct 2013
Author: Yuva
Co-founder

In this post, I will talk about how Rails 3.x reloads code in the development environment.

rails engines code-walkthrough namespaces

Isolate Namespace in Rails Engines - A hack in itself

Published: 22 Sep 2013
Author: Yuva
Co-founder

coffeescript rails

Setting up Source Maps for CoffeeScript in Rails

Published: 05 Sep 2013
Author: Amitava

rake rails tips

Redefine rake routes to add your own custom tag in Rails

Published: 12 Jul 2013
Author: Deepak

emacs osx fullscreen

Non native fullscreen for OSX on emacs 24.3

Published: 05 Jul 2013
Author: Hemant

ruby productivity gems

Introducing Invoker - Manage processes in development envionment

Published: 08 Jun 2013
Author: Hemant

Invoker is a utility we wrote to ease setting up of local development environments and top level .dev domains. Read on to know how to use it.

gem mountable rspec rails

All you need to know about writing a mountable Rails Gem with rspec

Published: 30 May 2013
Author: Yuva
Co-founder

ruby dtrace profiling rails

Profile Ruby 2.0 apps using DTrace - part 2

Published: 27 May 2013
Author: Hemant

Ruby 2.0 and above has in-built support for DTrace hooks. This lets us profile Ruby programs. In this post, I'll go into the details of the features of DTrace.

vim rubymotion

Vim tab completion for RubyMotion

Published: 01 May 2013
Author: Amitava

rails

Rails Autoload Path

Published: 01 May 2013
Author: Yuva
Co-founder

ruby dtrace profiling rails

Profile Ruby 2.0 apps using DTrace - Part 1

Published: 16 Apr 2013
Author: Hemant

Ruby 2.0 and above has in-built support for DTrace hooks. This lets us profile Ruby programs. In this post, I'll introduce DTrace and how to add DTrace probes to a Ruby program.

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