Service objects are a pattern that I believe should be part of Rails’ default. This extends the basic MVC model by introducing services to implement business... (more…)

Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael has written more than 20,000 articles covering the state of Linux hardware support, Linux performance, gr... (more…)

I'm a TextMate user. I find the text editor powerful, flexible and to the point. I've used Vim, Atom, Sublime Text and Visual Stu... (more…)

GraphQL is a query language for APIs. The query language itself is universal and not tied to any frontend or backend technology... (more…)

When I am building a Rails app that I expect to be public facing in some sort of capacity, I don’t want to be displaying auto-incrementing…...