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Ruby Through Rails – Part 1

by Sanjiv Kumar Jha, posted in Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Tutorials

(This has been reblogged from Sanjiv's Blog post) I am starting a series of blog posts where we can learn Ruby through Rails. We will take a deep dive into Rails source code and learn about how Rails works -- and learn a lot of Ruby constructs through that! Which command is more efficient - … Continue reading Ruby Through Rails – Part 1

How The Mongoid & MongoDB Aggregation Framework Looks Like!

by Gautam Rege, posted in MongoDB, Ruby

MongoDB introduced the aggregation framework since Version 2.2 but the power of the aggregation framework has only been tapped in Mongoid only since 3.1.0. Even today in the latest version (currently v4.0.0), the aggregation framework is used only for some basic functionality - :sum, :count, :avg, :min and :max. While this is much better than running … Continue reading How The Mongoid & MongoDB Aggregation Framework Looks Like!

RailsGirls Pune – The Gold & Beautiful

by Gautam Rege, posted in Conferences, Ruby on Rails

I was skeptical! Just from my experience of organizing RubyConf India and some local meetups, I was sure the turnout would be low and the event would be 'casually boring'. If only I knew how crazily wrong I was! A few days before the event, seeing about 250 registrations was itself a revelation. Then the … Continue reading RailsGirls Pune – The Gold & Beautiful