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Rails Cheat Sheet

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The Magic of Rails: exploring the principles and techniques behind the framework

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Bullet Train – Rails-based SaaS framework

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Pitchfork: Rack HTTP server for shared-nothing architecture

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In Defence of the Single Page Application

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The realtime web: evolution of the user experience

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Happy 10th Birthday, Sidekiq

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LiveBeats: Building a social music app with Phoenix LiveView

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Embracing open data with Elixir

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Building a Distributed Turn-Based Game System in Elixir

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Livebook: A collaborative and interactive code notebook for Elixir

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How to Build a Web App with and Without Rails Libraries

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10 years-ish of Elixir

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Enforcing Modularity in Rails Apps with Packwerk

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DHH: The HEY stack Vanilla Ruby on Rails, MySQL, redis, stimulus, elastic search

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Build a real-time Twitter clone with LiveView and Phoenix 1.5

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Frab – free and open conference management system

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Open-sourcing Sorbet: a fast, powerful type checker for Ruby

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Choosing Ruby on Rails for web development project in 2019

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Using JSON Schema to Document, Test, and Debug APIs

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A backdoor in the Ruby gem bootstrap-sass

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Why We Chose Rails to Build Gitlab

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Two years of Elixir at The Outline

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Lobste.rs

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PragProg removes access to forums due to SESTA

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Ruby’s Rack Push: Decoupling the real-time web application from the web

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How I've built a profitable Slack bot as a side project in Rails

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Rails and Revenue: Building a Screencast Business

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Faktory, a new background job system

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Learnings from One Year of Building an Open Source Elixir Application

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Learning Elixir: My side-project

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Building a Reddit-like site after 3-4 months learning Elixir

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One Line of Code That Compromises Your Server

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Building a Production Server Swift App

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Beyond 10,000 Lines: Lessons Learned from a Large Phoenix Project

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How Elixir Helped Us Scale Our Video User Profile Service for the Olympics

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GitMonitor on Elixir

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Ruby on Rails Tutorial

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Hanami – web framework for Ruby

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Rails 5.0.0.rc1

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Real-Time Django: Get Started with Django Channels

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Kill Your Dependencies

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Microcontainers – Tiny, Portable Docker Containers

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WebSockets: caution required

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Show HN: Administrate – Rails framework for creating flexible admin dashboards

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Reverse-Engineering iOS Apps: Hacking on Lyft

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ElixirConfEU Keynote – Phoenix Takes Flight [video]

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Trailblazer: A new architecture for Rails

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How we’ve made Raptor fast

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Payola – A Rails engine for Stripe

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Move Fast, Don't Break Your API

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GoRails – Ruby on Rails screencasts for web developers

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Lotus, a web framework for Ruby

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Show HN: Softcover – A publishing platform from the author of the Rails Tutorial

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Managing Node.js Callback Hell with Promises, Generators and Other Approaches

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What’s New in Node.js v0.12 – Performance Optimizations

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Real-time applications and will Django adapt?

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'Learn Ruby on Rails' is free today

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A List of Useful Backend Architectures

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Ruby 1.8.7 retired

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“Practical Artificial Intelligence Programming With Java” by Mark Watson

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Let people pay you. Make it easy

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Building Stripe's API

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Matz on Ruby 2.0 at Heroku's Waza

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Heroku Blog: Routing Performance Update

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Why I loved building Basecamp for iPhone in RubyMotion

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Rescuing Resque: Let's do this

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Github redesigns Profiles

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Securing Stripe's Capture the Flag

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Live Streaming in Rails 4.0

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The RubyMotion Way

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Why your web framework should not adopt Rack API

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Twitter Open Sourced Reputation System Gem for ActiveRecord

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Supporting IE Is Too Much Work

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Walken on Rails

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Kickstarter: rails.app

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The Ruby on Rails Tutorial, now with Twitter's Bootstrap

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WebSockets versus REST?

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Rails 4.0: PATCH will replace PUT as the primary HTTP method for updates

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Ruby Frameworks? Which one? Bye bye Rails.

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Chapter 6 of the Rails Tutorial, 2nd Edition is out ("Modeling users")

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Ryan Bates launches RailsCasts Pro

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Billing with Stripe

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Play on Heroku

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Matz (creator of Ruby) joins Heroku

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Twitter Shifting More Code to JVM, Citing Performance and Encapsulation

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Active Admin - The missing administration framework for Ruby on Rails

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The Path Forward: Ruby 1.9.2

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Rails Installer - Get up and running on Windows

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RailsAdmin: Rails3 easy-to-use interface for managing your data

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The Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial screencasts are out

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Here's to the Next 3 Years (Yehuda Katz Moves On)

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My short history of Engine Yard and my Resignation

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The Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial book (with PDF downloads) is out

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The New Ruby Ecosystem

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Open source Rails apps to study and learn from

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Mongrel2

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How We Moved From Microsoft ASP.NET to Rails and NoSQL

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Ruby has entered the Enterprise thanks to the Enterprise gem

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Obfuscated Erlang Competition Results

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Rails and Merb Merge

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For RoR, see every method call, parameter and return value in production

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Elixir at Ramp

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Lobsters

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Loco. The one-person framework for Rust for side-projects and startups

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Why Elixir Is the Best Language for Building a Bootstrapped, B2B SaaS in 2024

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How Netflix really uses Java

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A simple core.async job system in Clojure

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Open Source Twitch for Developers

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