Ruby on Rails Top 10 Articles — July 2018
What’s trending in Ruby and Ruby on Rails this month?
Here’s what’s trending this month in Ruby and Ruby on Rails. Topics include:
- Never send a human to do a machine’s job — Business Intelligence in Ruby on Rails
- Cryptography — What Is It and How Does It Work?
- How to scrape with Ruby and Nokogiri and map the data
- How you can build a terminal game with CSV and Ruby
Whether you’re an experienced Ruby on Rails Developer, or a newbie looking to learn the basics, there’s something for everyone on this list.
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Top 10 Articles
1. Pros & Cons you must know before using Ruby on Rails for your startup.
Ruby on Rails is definitely one of the best web development frameworks to consider for your next project. With RoR you can do pretty much the same as with other good frameworks. Here are some of it’s pros and cons you must know before using Ruby on Rails for your startup.
2. Lolcat, Colorls, Catpix, and other Ruby Gems to add color to your terminal
By ryanwhocodes
These are just some of the Ruby Gems that can enhance your terminal, and learning how they work means you can customize your command line. Check out this article to find out more!
3. Make a slideshow using Ruby on Rails in 50 lines of code and no JavaScript.
By Eran Peer
What if I told you there exists a Ruby on Rails front-end framework that will allow you to cut most of your application’s dependency on front-end JavaScript? Read onto this article to learn more.
4. How you can build a terminal game with CSV and Ruby
By Andrew Bales
Get the gist of how you can learn how to build a terminal game with a CSV and a few Ruby gems! Read the article to see a demo and find the complete code on GitHub.
5. Learn Haskell, Write Better Ruby
By Alex Taylor
Dive in to learning more about Haskell with some of these guide that will help you broaden your horizons and give you new perspective in writing Ruby on Rails.
6. How to scrape with Ruby and Nokogiri and map the data
By Andrew Bales
Ruby on Rails — next to Python — is a powerful tool to scrape data from a website. This article will walk you through the tools to use and how the code works for your use.
7. Insights: 2018 Ruby on Rails Community Survey
Are Rails developers keeping their apps updated? Is Ruby on Rails attracting new developers? What RubyGems are keeping developers awake at night? …is Ruby on Rails dying? Here are some insights about Ruby on Rails this 2018.
8. Cryptography — What Is It and How Does It Work?
By Chris Agius
Check your knowledge about cryptography and know what is it and how does it work for developers like us. Here’s a high-level overview with comprehensive examples you can read on using Ruby + OpenSSL.
9. From Ruby to Golang — Hash and Maps
Here’s how hash is created in Ruby and how it helps you to store amounts of data programatically in Golang that you can retrieve by using a key which is mapped to a value.
10. Never send a human to do a machine’s job — Business Intelligence in Ruby on Rails
Do you want to know better your visitors? What devises and browsers are they using? What country are they coming from? What are their UTM parameters? Here’s a Ruby on Rails application that will answer your burning questions entailed above. Read on to know more.
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