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A reliable way to generate PDF of any complexity in Ruby on Rails apps
RailsPDFCreate PDF documents in Rails your app from HTML, CSS and JS.Features:Basically, you can create any HTML/CSS/JS/Images page and save into PDFGenerate PDF on the fly or save to diskWith header, footer, page numbers, layout supportHas few st...
feature flipping for ruby (performant and simple)
Feature flipping is the act of enabling or disabling features or parts of your application, ideally without re-deploying or changing anything in your code base.The goal of this gem is to make turning features on or off so easy that everyone does i...
Refactoring With Design Patterns - the State Pattern
In this series of code refactoring posts we are discussing how design patterns can be used to make our Ruby code beautiful, maintainable and clean.Today I want to talk about a pattern that can be very useful when we need to control the flow of a s...
Microbenchmarks vs Macrobenchmarks (i.e. What's a Microbenchmark?)
I’ve mentioned a few times recently that something is a “microbenchmark.” What does that mean? Is it good or bad?Let’s talk about that. Along the way, we’ll talk about benchmarks that are not microbenchmarks and how to pick a scale/size for a spec...
Creating Raspberry Pi applications with Raylib and Ruby
I’ve been using the excellent Raylib to create a GUI application for my Raspberry Pi. As I explained in my last post, Raylib allows rapid development of GUI applications targeting the Linux framebuffer, meaning I don’t have to run a full desktop e...
Ruby or Elixir. Which one do you need for your software project?
You are a business owner, have an idea for a web app and are looking for the right software house to outsource for your project. You are a non-technical person, but stumbled upon terms like ‘web development’, ‘Ruby’, ‘Ruby on Rails’, ‘Elixir’ and ...
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