There are many ways to generate PDFs in Ruby and Rails. Chances are that you are already familiar with HTML and CSS, so we are going to use PDFKit to generate PDF files using HTML from standard Rails view and style code.

When a new version of Rails comes out, one of the pain points is upgrading existing apps to the latest version.

Ruby 2.4 will be merging both Fixnum & Bignum into the same class (Integer) so I think this is a good time to review the different number types in Ruby!

The more I work with Rails apps, the more I love ActiveRecord. It’s a really elegant abstraction over your data layer, and lets you focus on business logic instead of crafting SQL statements.

Any kind of website or web portal that runs on SEO principles needs to have content that makes the ‘big bucks’. Not only that, SEO techniques helps to streamline the content that is uploaded and also to make it worthwhile in the long run.