Best of Ruby — June 2024

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   Fireship·2y

   Ruby on Rails in 100 Seconds

   Ruby on Rails is a powerful web framework that has been used by successful internet startups for the past 20 years. It allows developers to quickly build large-scale web applications using the Ruby programming language. Rails follows the model-view-controller (MVC) pattern and includes features like active record for modeling relationships in a SQL database. With Rails, you can easily build a full stack application by installing Ruby, Rails, and SQLite, and using the Rails CLI to scaffold your project.

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   Article

   David Heinemeier Hansson·2y

   Visions of the future

   Discovering the future early and undistributed is an exciting feeling. The author has felt this way about various things in the past like Linux, Mac, and Ruby. They believe in taking risks and being early on ideas.

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   Article

   Ruby Flow·2y

   Create a QR Code with a Logo

   Learn how to create a custom QR code with a logo using Ruby on Rails. This tutorial walks you through setting up a simple app, using MiniMagick and RQRCode to generate and process images, including Active Storage for uploading attachments. The process includes generating a QR code, adding a logo, and combining images to create a branded QR code.

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   Article

   Random Thoughts about Building Software·2y

   Quick Intro to Ruby Endless Method

   The endless method in Ruby is a single-expression method introduced in version 3.0. It can be used to improve code structure and readability by giving a good name to a statement. The endless method is cheap and does not add more lines of code to the file.

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