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Factory Girl 101

Tutorial • Beginner

This is part one of a guide for using Factory Girl for test data. In this article you’ll learn about the most essential features to get you up and running....

Ed Wassermann • 13 Jan 2016
Ruby on Rails

Rails Image Upload: Using CarrierWave in a Rails App

Tutorial • Beginner

The importance of enabling image upload in your Rails application cannot be underestimated. In this tutorial, you will learn how to enable image uploading in...

Kingsley Silas Chijioke • 4 Jan 2016
Performance

How to Use New Relic Insights to Learn More About Your Customers

Tutorial • Intermediate

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use New Relic Insights to collect information about your web application's users and use it to build a customer...

Jarkko Laine • 12 Nov 2015
Ruby on Rails

Build a CMS With Rails

Course • Advanced

This course will show you how to build a content management system (CMS) using Ruby on Rails. We'll build up the most important functionality of a real-world...

José Mota • 6 Jul 2015
Yii

How to Program With Yii2: Validations

Tutorial • Intermediate

The Yii Framework's built-in, extensible validators provide powerful data conformance controls which speed web development. Learn how to use them and extend...

Jeff Reifman • 27 May 2015
Ruby on Rails

One Class per Rails Controller Action With Aldous

Tutorial • Intermediate

Controllers are often the eyesore of a Rails application. Controller actions are bloated despite our attempts to keep them skinny, and even when they look...

Alan Skorkin • 22 Apr 2015
Hosting

Introduction to New Relic Insights

Tutorial • Beginner

For the first time ever, you can now ask questions about your software, customers, and business and get answers in milliseconds.

Jeff Reifman • 13 Nov 2014
Performance

Front-End Monitoring with New Relic Browser

Tutorial • Intermediate

The only monitoring product that gives you full visibility into the complete web page lifecycle of your actual users in modern browser-side applications.

Jeff Reifman • 28 Oct 2014
Ruby

Build a Custom API to Connect WordPress With Ruby on Rails

Tutorial • Intermediate

Once upon a time, web applications used to be monoliths that did everything all by themselves. These days, not so much. With web services opening up their...

Jarkko Laine • 19 Oct 2014
Rest API

Using Ruby to Program Arduino

Tutorial • Beginner

This article explains the role of Arduino in the 'Internet of Things' or 'Physical Computing' and goes on to show how Ruby can be used to play with the Arduino.

Nishant Modak • 13 Aug 2014
Ruby on Rails

Let's Write a RubyMotion App: Part 1

Tutorial • Intermediate

RubyMotion is a framework that lets you build iOS applications in Ruby. It gives you all of the benefits of the Ruby language, but because the code you write...

Landon Schropp • 2 Jun 2014
Web Servers

Using New Relic to Monitor Your Servers

Tutorial • Beginner

Today we will look at how to use New Relic to monitor your infrastructure (i.e. your production server) and why you'd want to.

Alan Skorkin • 2 Jun 2014