Guides to the core and standard libraries, as well as selected Rubygems.
Category: APIs and Libraries
Episode #618
Understanding OAuth2… with Horses!
If you're integrating your software with a web service these days, chances are you have to use OAuth2 to authorize it. Here's a little story about a horse which will …
Episode #605
StimulusJS
JS framworks are great for richly interactive client-side applications. But what if we just want to take a typical Rails app and spruce it up with a little bit of …
Episode #592
Set
Ruby's Arrays are remarkably flexible and useful data structures, but they aren't always the right choice. Learn how using a data abstraction that enforces uniqueness can prevent bugs, while making …
Episode #582
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 …
Episode #580
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!
Episode #573
Roda – Part 2
Join guest Federico Iachetti to learn how to work with HTML views, in the lightweight but deceptively powerful Roda web toolkit.
Episode #572
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.
Episode #569
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 …
Episode #568
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 …