Blogs posts for category Ruby on Rails

Giving Back To Open Source, Security Edition

Note: This post details recently patched security vulnerabilities in a few popular Ruby libraries. If you use Rails, i18n, Doorkeeper, or Sorcery please go make sure that you are up-to-date and then...

Efficiency with Sublime Text and Ruby

What does a developer do when he likes the usability of a graphical editor like Textmate, but wants the configurability of Vim or Emacs? The answer is Sublime Text. I used to write my programs in Textmate...

Testing Pundit Policies with RSpec

The fine folks over at Elabs recently released Pundit: a new authorization gem that uses “regular Ruby classes and object oriented design patterns to build a simple, robust and scaleable authorization...

5 Simple Rules to Good OO in Rails

Rules are a novel idea. Rule aren’t guidelines or suggestions or hints; rules are the law. When a developer says they have a set of rules for how to approach a particular concept there is generally...