Note: This article is a sample chapter in my upcoming book Building a SaaS Ruby on Rails 5. The book will guide you from humble beginnings… (more…)

In the previous article we as a Ruby on Rails development company have already covered such great websites built with Ruby on Rails as Twitter, Basecamp, Kickstarter, Yammer, Slideshare, Zendesk and Bloomberg. Now is the time to uncover some more awesome ...

At Localytics, one of the tools we use for data processing is the Snowflake data warehouse. We connect to Snowflake in a couple different ways, but our main data retrieval application is a Ruby on Rails API. To accomplish this we use a combination of unix... (more…)

I was recently built a simple Wiki app for work that required markdown parsing. To get this going I needed to use html-pipeline to parse the content of the articles and display markdown. First thing, this post assumes you have an Article model or some Po... (more…)

In my previous article, I had a hard time trying to explain why I wanted to replace Rails with something else in the first place. This article is my attempt to write more specifically about what I dislike in Rails for the purpose of the single page applic... (more…)