What should I do to take care and nurture a local software community?

I live in Barranquilla, Colombia, and just recently I was assigned co-organizer of the not-active Ruby community. This is going to be my first time ever working in this role and I got a couple of ideas of what to do but a couple of good advice from p...

How to design a Newsfeed that involves a "fetch more" concept?

So, I have a Rails based Newsfeed that's put together by picking artifacts from various things the user follows. I could get all of that in one shot in the right order and all works fine. But wondering how to implement a "fetch more" concept in that ...

Is there a way I can detect if the current directory is a Rails application?

I'm working on a Ruby gem that should work in a Rails environment, as well as in a Vanilla Ruby (non-Rails) environment. However, I need to implement different logic at some point that depends on whether the gem is required in a Rails project or in s...

Eager loading of Rails objects with has_many association

I have a Rails 5.1 (Ruby 2.4.0) Widget class which has_one foo and has_many bars (both optional). class Widget < ApplicationRecord has_one: foo has_many: bars # methods end I have a method in which I want to eagerly load an array of Widgets wi...

Rails RSpec Prawn

Say I have a class method that uses Prawn to add color to a text. Without using, PDF:Inspector, how would I test whether the color method is being called when the class method is called on the class's instance?

Which one between Phoenix and Rails should I choose for our next project?

We're starting a new project, version 2 of an application. Number of online users grows upto 8K at night. The application is a social networking application with things like viewing other users profiles, liking photos, sending messages, live chat, et...

Why do startups use languages like Python and Ruby which are slow but big companies use Go, Java or even Scala for their backend?

What's the best way to learn Ruby on Rails in 2017?

I am planning to learn Rails this weekend. How should one start? Rails developers any advices?

I'm a Java/PHP developer and I want to start learning Rails. Where to start? Is it worth it?

I've been using PHP and Java for about 5 years and I am planning to develop a web application using Rails. First, I want to know is it worth it to go from Laravel and Spring framework to Rails ? Also, if you can help me with links and resources or ...