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Rails abstract lot of database stuff away using Active record which is very convenient. But the convenience can bite back if we are not careful enough. Here I am going to list some common mistakes rails developers make and how to avoid them. Having network calls on rails after_c…

Being the default the gem file entries in a rails project, you may have encountered spring and bootsnap. Here we are going through how they work and how they can improve boot time of your applications and why you get some weird errors in the app(Looking at you Spring). Before di…

Postgresql is one of the most advanced open source database available in the market. Adherence to the SQL standards and super cool extra features are few of the reason by Postgres being the most popular database among rails community. This is neither introduction to Postgres nor…

The alleged GPL violation in a ruby library called mimemagic which broke builds of rails projects across the world brought discussion of Intellectual property in the software world one more time last week. It is important to have a general idea about these terms for a software d…

Rack is a framework for ruby web frameworks. If you developed apps in ruby frameworks like rails, hanami, Sinatra, you already used Rack. Almost all ruby web frameworks use rack under the hood, If you are already familiar with rack then you can skip next step and go to re buildi…

Ruby 2.4 got released this Christmas with lot of exciting features. One of the most underrated features in ruby 2.4 is hash table improvements. Before going into details about implementation, let’s first check the benchmark to know how this change gonna affect your ruby applicat…

Install Ruby Dependancies sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install git-core curl zlib1g-dev build-essential libssl-dev libreadline-dev libyaml-dev libsqlite3-dev sqlite3 libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev python-software-properties Install Ruby Using RVM sudo apt-get …

Modified version of Fedena Installation guide at project fedena website Install Ruby Dependancies sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install git-core curl zlib1g-dev build-essential libssl-dev libreadline-dev libyaml-dev libsqlite3-dev sqlite3 libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libcurl4-ope…

Apertium malayalam english pair contain two directories apertium-mal -> conatins malayalam specific rules and resources apertium-mal-eng ->contains translation rules Apertium-mal apertium-mal.mal.lexc -> contain mono lingual dictionary in lexec format , it is contain morphotacti…

Apertium is an open source machine translation toolkit .It is an extensible platform so that new language pairs can be added easily . It is currently in incubator state , we have to do a lot to to make it useful for translation of real life examples . I created ppas for the tool…