In the previous article, setting up the Rails environment using Chef was explained. Picking up from where we left off, we’ll begin this tutorial by setting up roles. Adding roles is an important step but a bit tricky as well. Users This cookbook adds users to the server, granting them appropriate privileges and so on. You will need to use it together with the Sudo cookbook....

Another reason for its preference is that its scripts are written in a text file similar to the English language which makes it simpler than other tech stacks that communicate directly with the software.

Rails has always been the best for designing full-stack websites since the beginning. You may have your opinion on this, but we believe that it’s a language and framework that makes the development faster. While many talk about its demise, we say it’s sought-after and looks to be making its way in the future too.

It’s been more than 2 decades since ruby was launched and the framework rails has been around for almost 15 years now. The language might be old but Ruby on Rails advantages never get old.

RoR dies almost every year; you think it’s most likely dead this year as well. Then why are we talking about it again? We are debating on it for the reason that Ruby on Rails is here to stay and you better get used to it.

We are sure that you have heard about RoR dying every year but what is reality? Its death is still talk of the town but is it a fact or an opinion? Let’s find it out together.

In this tutorial, we will walk through the process of setting up Ruby on Rails server deployment with Chef – in order to automate remote server configuration. Chef is a tool that allows us to manage configurations, similar to Puppet, but it’s considerably more popular as it’s written in Ruby. This tool can help you manage your infrastructure dependencies, create folder....

Capistrano is a tool used for remote server automation and deployment, written in Ruby. It uses SSH to connect with server for performing various operations and Rake to define tasks required to perform deployment on a specific server. To automate repetitive deployment tasks, it can also be used for any language or framework including Java, PHP....

Software design patterns help to speed up the development process. These have been proven and tested in this field while resolving specific problems in the best possible way. These patterns are abstract solutions that can be mapped in myriad situations and are classified in the following categories: Behavioral patterns Structural patterns Creational patterns....

Volt being a Reactive web framework can be an ideal choice to run your Ruby Code on the server as well as on the client side. The DOM shows the Prompt response on automated basis whenever a user interaction with the page takes place. It is systematically efficient in a way that it only updates the nodes which require change. Data can be stored conveniently on....

JRuby is an implementation of modern Ruby language of Java VM. It brings right parallelism and increased performance. It gets fame due to the multi threading capabilities it introduces to Ruby World. When ever the thread word pops up, first choice always remains Java. This was the most wanted feature that Ruby fans were looking for. Java VM also have world known and....

In a project if there is a need to upgrade the rails 2 version to its latest version 3.0.0, one need to install 2.3.5 first, then install rails 2.3.18 and then finally install 3.0.0. Recommended way is to do step by step upgradation. In this way, you will be able to diagnose and resolve issuesone by one instead of trying to resolve all at once. Rails upgradation from....