Guides to the core and standard libraries, as well as selected Rubygems.
Category: APIs and Libraries
Why GraphQL?
Join guest chef Nat Budin to see how a traditional RESTful API can lead to an inefficient client/server conversation. You'll see what a GraphQL alternative looks like, and then get …
Savon & SOAP APIs
Learn how to build well-tested interfaces to legacy SOAP-based legacy web APIs from your Ruby application, from guest chef Beth Haubert!
Roda – Part 2
Join guest Federico Iachetti to learn how to work with HTML views, in the lightweight but deceptively powerful Roda web toolkit.
Roda – Part 1
Sometimes Rails is overkill! Roda an elegantly designed lightweight alternative, and in today's episode Federico Iachetti is going to show you how to get started using it.
Polymorphic Attributes in Rails – Part 2
Previously, guest chef Corey Haines joined us to talk about representing complex structured data with custom attribute types in Rails. Today, he returns to show us how to implement polymorphism …
Polymorphic Attributes in Rails – Part 1
Sometimes model attributes need to have more structure than a simple string or number. In part 1 of a 2-part series on ActiveRecord polymorphic attributes, guest chef Corey Haines demonstrates …
Episode #557
In the final entry in our series on ROM with guest Tim Riley, get ready for a quick tour through some more advanced ROM features. You'll get a sense of …
Episode #556
Today, Guest chef Tim Riley continues our tour of the ROM persistence gem. Learn how ROM uses the concept of Changesets to cleanly manage writes to the database!
Episode #555
Frustrated with the ActiveRecord Way? Join guest chef Tim Riley for part 1 of a 3-part introduction to ROM, and see how it can give you the flexibility to craft …
Episode #554
Join the one and only Aaron Patterson for a peek behind the scenes at how he goes about profiling, diagnosing and fixing poorly performing code in ActiveRecord.