If you're the Acting Ensign Crusher of Rails developers, you've probably heard about background jobs but are a little lost. They're essential for building modern, responsive applications. But let's be honest, the thought of adding another service to your stack can be...
As many of you might know Rails is now twenty years old; that's two years older than it needs to be to able to be executed by the state or sent to kill people on the other-side of the world in the US, but a year shy of ordering a Sam Adams or pack of Camels....
Ruby Gems are the default way to share code among Ruby projects and developers. While public Gems can be found and used via RubyGems.org, there are occasions when you might need to create a private gem, perhaps for proprietary tools or internal use within your...
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I have to admit it: I think both Node.js and Ruby on Rails are great. I have been working with Rails for a while now and have a few Rails applications in production. I have been working on a project using Node.js for a few months now and, though the project is just...
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