#184 - aug 14th 2016

Examples of UI/UX, graphic performance, web design and flashy things.

Apollo 11
Nicely done and it gets some tricky interaction on last page.

Web applications, resources and tools, available for making our life easier or funnier.

stdlib
Readily available, scalable web functions.

A selection of gems or applications updated during past week.

rspec_nested_transactions
Nested transactions around before/after(:all) blocks for RSpec
Portfolio
A blog and Portfolio CMS built with Rails, React, Redux, Material-UI, CSS Modules.
Sandthorn
A ruby library for saving an object's state as a series of events.
Acts_as_tenant
Easy multi-tenancy for Rails in a shared database setup
Graphql-ruby
Ruby implementation of Facebook's GraphQL
Goss
Quick and Easy server testing/validation

From the blogosphere or news feeds ...

Implementing a Naive Bayes Text Classifier	aug 8
Using Ruby to implement a Naive Bayes Classifier.
RSpec::Expectations Cheat Sheet	aug 9
Cheat sheet for RSpec Expectations.
Level Up Your Security in Rails	aug 9
Rails comes with a lot of secure features and defaults right out of the box.
Bundling Dependencies Inside Ruby Gems	aug 9
Distribute a gem with isolated dependencies from application space.
Why is URI.join so counterintuitive?	aug 9
While URI.join can be used to build URLs from various path fragments, that's not really what it's designed to do.
Image Upload and Manipulation with React	aug 9
How you can upload, store and manipulate images using React without a server-side language.
Designing Great Command-Line User Experiences	aug 9
Tips for making command-line UX awesome.
Understanding Ruby Closures	aug 10
An in-depth analysis of Ruby closures.
The Search For Class:0x00000027b59290	aug 10
Another fun story about bug hunting.
The Complete Guide to Optimising Web Images	aug 10
Techniques for tweaking the perfect images.
Fast and Accurate Document Detection for Scanning	aug 10
How Dropbox developed their document recognition tools.
Intro to Avro	aug 11
Fast/compact data serialization format that allows every service to communicate effectively.
Using Ruby to work with streams and pipelines	aug 12
brief exploration of using Ruby to work with streams and pipelines for processing data.
The Upgrade Trails	aug 13
Tales from multi-year Rails upgrades at Code School, sprinkled with bits of hindsight.

Links curated by mose (publisher), xenor, tysliu (editors), hsatac, mose, nauman (contributors) .

The random rant of the week by mose.

It happens from time to time, I don't feel like ranting about anything :)