Knowing how to use testing frameworks is one of the most important skills any developer must learn. In particular with the Ruby programming language, testing is even more important because a compiler will not catch syntax errors or little slip ups! Such is life when using interpreted languages. Despite testing’s importance being obvious, it is surprising how many Ruby on Rails apps have deficient test coverage or no code coverage at all! Why is this?

Ruby’s Standard Library is full of many Objects that ship with just about any Object Oriented programming language. We have String, Hash, Array, Integer, and Float. However, there are several more “niche” Objects that many code schools and programming books overlook. In this article, I’m going to show off one of Ruby’s lesser utilized Objects: the Rational Class. What are they and what can you use them to do?

Here at Rails Agency, we’ve been using Ruby on Rails to rapidly prototype and build amazing webapps for clients all over the world. It comes with no surprise we’re as excited about the release of Rails’ latest major release, version 6.0, as DHH is himself.

You have probably heard at least one I-hate-Monday joke. What if…you had the power to make your office a place where people are happy to come to work?

Did you know that most of your favorite websites use the web application Ruby on Rails? Among them are Twitter, Airbnb, Bloomberg, GitHub, GoodReads, Groupon, Jobster, Sound Cloud, and Spree Commerce. Are you planning a website or online component for your small business? Read on for the reasons why these companies prefer Ruby on Rails.

Recently we were working on a project in which we needed a subscription based payment system to manage different user plans. This was an MVP so we did not necessarily want to roll our own subscription system if we didnt have to. Enter Koudoku, a Rails based subscription engine that integrates into Stripe out of the box and uses Stripe Event to hook into Stripe’s beatifully simple subscription plan system.

In a world driven by technology, building a mobile app or online store may boost your business. What do you do if you don’t have an internal IT team?

You’ve heard the saying ̶ treat others the way you want them to treat you. It’s applicable in so many situations, even in the exciting world of technology.

Imagine a beautiful, sunny morning. You have a nice life that is rich in family harmony and professional success.

Over the course of my experience as a developer, I’ve often found that when things get complex - they get really complex. Often times the key to a solution isn’t finding the one thing that solves a problem, but rather the combination of different functionalities that ends up being the solution that works the best. In the case of one of our pro-bono projects, I had a particularly difficult problem that I needed to solve - and the solution that I arrived at involved a combination of Postgres’ Common Table Expressions, Window Functions, SearchLight, and Rails Query Scopes. What on earth was I trying to accomplish that could possibly elicit this witches brew of open source technologies? Simple: I needed to take user-supplied input, sanitize it, geocode it, then ensure that the result set did not contain duplicates. Each of the tools listed above contributed in some fashion to the working solution!