Update (2012, 10 December) Authologic-team patched weird behavior with (I)LIKE and now Postgres users can make everything without clutches. Just use new version 3.2.0. Introduction User authentication – is the most utilized part of Authlogic gem. But default configuration of Continue

With a little delay, right on a first week of December why not to share 2 speeches that our guys had during RubyShift 2012 conference. Here you go! Deadsimple JRuby troubleshooting by Sergey Boiko. RubyShift 2012 And a presentation: PostgreSQL Continue

Introduction New Relic has become an industry standard for web applications performance measurement in Rails community. Simply adding and configuring newrelic_rpm gem for your Rails application gives you a great overview of its performance with an adequate level of details. Continue

A while ago we’ve touched an introduction to UI Library approach where you can see an overview of how you can organize & document user interface components and become more productive in Front-end and Design. It does not matter what Continue

TL;DR Update airbrake-gem to last version and enable asynchronous delivery option to avoid latency in application response time. Introduction We used Airbrake (ex-Hoptoad) to track errors in our application. But, several months ago we noticed delays in application response time, Continue

Recent 3.2.9 release bugfix has brought an issue for through associations. inverse_of usage can solve the problem only partially (polymorphic associations are still affected). UPDATE: patch that introduced this issue has just been reverted in rails master. Few days ago Continue

Preface Using yield and blocks is what makes Ruby so different from other scripting languages. But in some cases yield can lead to unpredictable behavior and it’s crucial to understand what can go wrong. Let’s consider next code: File.open("/etc/hosts", "r") Continue

Working with non-native developers without a project manager, really can that be true? In the past 11 years I have experienced, developed and improved many different structures to improve the output of both nearshore and offshore outsourcing teams, but memories Continue

2 part — Writing CSS 3 part — Layouts Interfaces nowadays consist of lots of different components, layouts, and sometimes color schemes. From day to day, we add new components, and our code gets more and more complicated. So, we Continue

A while ago I’ve started series of posts that should help Photoshop (PS) users to get advantage of Fireworks (FW) features with minimum discomfort of mastering an unfamiliar tool and use PS as a booster for it. Check Intro and Continue