Guides to the core and standard libraries, as well as selected Rubygems.
Category: APIs and Libraries

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 …

Episode #557
Building queries with rom-rb
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
Writing changes with rom-rb
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!