Rails

Documentation

• rails api

Incoming

• How Rails Sessions Work
• Examining The Internals Of The Rails Request/Response Cycle
• rack-attack - Rack middleware for blocking & throttling

Authentication

• devise - Flexible authentication solution for Rails with Warden. http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/tag/…
  • Skip devise trackable module for API calls to avoid users table getting locked

Admin frameworks

• ActiveAdmin - The administration framework for business critical Ruby on Rails applications.
• administrate - A Rails engine that helps you put together a super-flexible admin dashboard. http://administrate-prototype.herokua…

Services

• Using Services to Keep Your Rails Controllers Clean and DRY

Forms

• simple_form - Forms made easy for Rails! It’s tied to a simple DSL, with no opinion on markup. http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/tag/simple_form/

Frontend gems

• twitter-bootstrap-rails - Twitter Bootstrap for Rails 5 - 4.x Asset Pipeline https://github.com/seyhunak/twitter-b…
• less-rails - :-1: 🚋 Less.js For Rails http://github.com/metaskills/less-rails

Database

Seeding

• seed-fu - Advanced seed data handling for Rails, combining the best practices of several methods together.

Migrations

• Active Record Migrations

Concerns

• About Rails concerns

DI (Dependency Injection)

• LEGOs, Play-Doh, and Programming

• Video - RailsConf 2014 - All the Little Things by Sandi Metz

• Dependency Injection in Ruby 07 Oct 04

• canister - A simple IoC container for ruby
• dry-container - dry-container is a simple, thread-safe container, intended to be one half of a dependency injection system, possibly in combination with dry-auto_inject.
• Dependency injection is not a virtue

Bounded contexts

• October CincyRb - Jim Weirich on Decoupling from Rails

• Ruby Conf 12 - Boundaries by Gary Bernhardt

Dockerfile

Basic Dockerfile

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FROM ruby:2.2.0
MAINTAINER genar@acs.li

# Install dependencies
RUN apt-get update -qq && apt-get install -y build-essential libpq-dev nodejs
RUN mkdir /myapp
WORKDIR /myapp
ADD . /myapp
RUN bundle install
RUN bin/rake db:migrate

# Publish port 3000
EXPOSE 3000

# Start rails built-in server
ENTRYPOINT rails s -p 3000 -b 0.0.0.0

Snippets

Pass query string to path methods

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confirm_a3_import_company_payslip_periods_path({year: '2019'})
# Will generate /backoffice/companies/3333/payslip_periods/a3_confirm?year=2019

Testing

• rspec-rails - RSpec for Rails-3+ http://relishapp.com/rspec/rspec-rails
• How to Test Rails Models with RSpec
• Testing Rails Application
• Testing Your Factories First
• 3 ways of testing private methods in Rails

Controllers

• Testing Rails Controllers
• How I learned to test my Rails applications, Part 4: Controller specs

Documentation

Swagger

• How to document REST APIs with Swagger and Ruby on Rails
• Documenting Rails-based REST API using Swagger UI
• https://github.com/zuzannast/swagger_ui_engine

I18n

• Rails Internationalization (I18n) API

Links

• Getting Started with Rails
• Ruby on Rails

Books

• https://gist.github.com/mackato/424892