Chat Application with Rails 5 and React
Diatom is a custom software development company and react Services together with Ruby Services is one of the main aspects of our business. One of the recent projects I worked on was called Cliizii, which is an online marketing platform. This was a big project that contained several parts, one of which was a chat […]
Cuba, why not?
In this post, I want to introduce you to Cuba. Cuba is a microframework for web development originally inspired by Rum, a tiny but powerful mapper for Rack applications. It integrates many templates via Tilt, and testing via Cutest and Capybara. Usually, when you speak to a Ruby developer, he will describe himself as a […]
Dynamically Compile Stylesheets with Rails and Sass
One of the latest challenges that I had, was to create “Custom style sheets for each user” that user can generate to style his page. This blog post will be right about how I managed it and what “underground rocks” I faced. Basic Setup First of all, we need some basic test app before we […]
A brief overview of Ruby hash
This will be a brief overview of the hash data structure, how it is implemented and how it can be manipulated in Ruby. What is a Hash? A Hash is a data structure that organizes data in key-value pairs. It is also referred to as a dictionary or associative array. These properties of a hash […]
Array is one of the workhorses in Ruby
In this post, I will dive into Arrays. There are several methods we use every day, methods we use sometimes and methods we don’t know they even exist. Basics It’s a boring definition, but we all need to remember it: Array indexing starts at 0. A negative index is assumed to be relative to the […]
3 Things You Need to Know About Accessibility
Recently, I was asked: How do disabled people use the web? I have been working as a web developer for about four years, but I have never really thought about the usability of my web application for disabled people. And that single question made me think: “Am I creating software that is available for everyone?” […]
Using Neo4j with Ruby on Rails
First of all, what is Neo4j? To sum this up, Neo4j is an open-source NoSQL graph database implemented in Java and Scala. It’s development started on 2003, but it got available as an open source database only in 2007. You can see it on GitHub. Neo4j is one of the market leading graph databases, you […]