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PagerDuty gives you an overall view of all your monitoring alarms and alerts in one place. Let’s have a look at the key attributes of this expedient plug-in: Serves as a Monitoring aggregation tool PagerDuty serves as an alarm aggregation and dispatching tool for the system administration and support teams. While collecting the alerts from …

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Git is an open-source version control system and a command-line tool, it is used by programmers, developers, and designers to store projects and keep track of changes to their files. github.com is the website where developers can store their projects. Some basic git command is mentioned below: git clone /path/to/repository This command is used to …

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What’s in a name A good name answers important questions. What does it contain? What does it mean? How would I use it? What  role  does  it  play? Always name your methods based on their behaviour, not implementation. Consider, By looking at the method name above, we can predict it’s going to perform 2-3 database …

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Gems are libraries in Rails that generally enable you to write the application code faster and thereby making a great product in far lesser time. Usually, whenever we start developing any application, there comes a point when we need data which we can use to see how the application will behave while doing some load …

Faker Gem: Fake Data Generation in Ruby Read More »

For each one of us who’s been waiting for the release of the all-new and neat and clean version of Rails 5.1, the wait is over. The new version of Rails 5.1 easily accepts the SPA (Single Page Application) and it also represents a genuine upgradation in terms of performance and structure of Rails, one …

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ImgLiquid is a jQuery plugin for resizing the images so that these images can fit in the container. Features Optional Responsive (default settings are ‘off’). Lightweight: less than 2KBs gzipped Fill/Crop Align CallBacks Svg support Optional FadeIn Anim (default settings are ‘off’) Compatible with all browsers (Incl. ie6) Why to use? It’s a very good …

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Perhaps you already heard about Sass (Syntactically Awesome StyleSheets) and you are interested in it, but don’t have an idea about how to set it up or incorporate it into your project. In the most basic form, Sass is known as the CCS processor, which makes it possible for the CCS writing to become more …

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We might have heard about a lot many gems which let us implement search functionality in our rails application; for example: searchkick, elasticsearch-rails, ransack and finally, sunspot to work with solr search engine. All these gems have their own advantages. Both searchkick and elasticsearch use redis to search the data as well as need to …

How to use Textacular Gem to search data in your Rails Application Read More »

Introduction Github: Decent Exposure Gem Decent Exposure allows us to create exposed variables that can be used across the controller’s actions instead repeating instance variables. Exposed variables are accessible from views as well and memorize the resultant values. In other words, it is a helper for creating declarative interfaces in controllers. Some Points Improving encapsulation …

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