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Rails Application Templates – Dead Simple Ruby On Rails
Ever wondered that you run usual rails new my_awesome_app and you get a really fully bootstraped, authentication added, administration added and lot more for you to just start focusing on business logic instead? Or the other scenario is what if yo...


How to creating Machine Learning Systems with JRuby
All the different programming languages out there seem to be a better fit for machine learning tasks than Ruby, right?All the different programming languages out there seem to be a better fit for machine learning tasks than Ruby, right? Python has...


How I Integrated Stripe Terminal with Ruby on Rails
Today we’re going to cover how I integrated Stripe Terminal into a multitenant Rails application. Stripe Terminal is a combination of SDK, and physical hardware to swipe credit cards. This is a huge moment in web development because Stripe Termina...


Ruby gem for extracting tables from PDF as a structured info
Iguvium renders pdf into an image, looks for table-like graphic structure and tries to place characters into detected cells.Characters extraction is done by PDF::Reader gem. Some PDFs are so messed up it can't extract meaningful text from them. If...


When I Use Controller/Request Specs in Rails and When I Don't
Every so often I come across a question of controller or request specs and when to use them.Before I can address this I need to get some terminology out of the way. In RSpec there are controller tests and request specs which are similar but subtly...