Chocolatey is famous package manager for Windows. Folks also name it “homebrew for Windows”. Today, right before my vacation leave, I got Chocolatey surprise. Can you spot surprise in this code?

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I’m reading a book of Yegor Bugayenko “Elegant Objects”. Yegor has strong opinion that names ending with -er are really bad for your objects. The first one that came to my mind was… Controller.

Project Rider is in beta, and available for preview. I tried to install it to see if things are going easy enough, and if it’s usable on Mac OSX El Capitan.

Part 1. Introduction to Modern Frontend Workflow, adding our first React Component.

How much time it takes for Rails to generate your page? We can easily measure that. But what if you want to find bottlenecks, to measure how much time it takes to render partials, to find the code that wastes your CPU? There is one very easy way to find this out.

While first starting out with Ruby, I coded a Caesar Cipher algorithm (shift each character in a string by n, so ‘c’ becomes ‘e’ if n=2, ‘f’ becomes ‘h’, etc.). And, to contrast, ten few minutes ago I was going through some challenges for practice and came across the same problem. I searched through my own code base and found another solution I wrote ~3 years back.

I installed my first Linux distribution somewhere between 1995 and 2000. It was RedHat, not too bad, not too good, as usual. Soon Mandrake has been released in 1998 (17 years ago, holy sh8t!). It was the first attempt to make Linux friendly. 2015 is the year of Linux desktop. So what do we have for now?

In this post I’ll cover how to install ‘passenger’ for nginx. What is passenger and why do you need it? Well, if you deploy your ruby applications straight to the cloud (heroku, aws, etc), you can skip this manual. But when it comes to running ruby apps on your own dedicated server (which I personally prefer) you need a bit of magic. If you don’t have your own dedicated/VPS server, you’ll probably won’t find this article very useful.

While working Ruby on Rails app, developers tend to add more and more client libraries: Angular, Bootstrap, jQuery plugins. And RoR framework by default offers no any efficient way of managing these dependencies. You either add gems to Gemfile or place your assets under vendor/assets. In first case gem could be updated infrequently, and application starts running slower over the time because of large amount of gems. In another case, updating an asset becomes a pain – you have to handle all these dependencies manually.

SSH is network protocol designed for remote operating system control and tunneling. Data sent over SSH is encrypted.