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Build a WhatsApp chatbot with Ruby, Sinatra and Twilio
In this post we’ll get started building a simple chatbot that can respond to different keywords over WhatsApp, sending back pictures about dogs or cats based on the message you send it. We’ll use Sinatra and the Twilio API for WhatsApp to build ourselves a chatbot.
Net::HTTP is not your API client
Firing off one request is not enough to interact with APIs in production. If you are not willing to add the boilerplate code to add the necessary robustness - please use a library [more inside]
StatusCode: Our Weekly Programming Newsletter
You’re not just a Rubyist, you’re a software developer, right? :-) Check out StatusCode Weekly, our language and architecture agnostic newsletter that covers the biggest news across the entire software development world.
Decoupling Ruby: Delegation vs Dependency Injection
We’ve all worked with tightly-coupled code. If a butterfly flaps its wings in China, the unit tests break. Maintaining a system like this is…unpleasant. In this article, Jonathan Miles dives into the origins of tight-coupling. He demonstrates how you can use dependency injection (DI) to decouple code. Then he introduces a novel decoupling technique based on delegation that can be useful when DI is not an option. https://www.honeybadger.io/blog/decoupling-ruby-delegation-dependency-injection/
Maintainable Rails email course
Is your Rails app outdated, unwieldy, or….off the rails? Do you struggle with spaghetti code or technical debt? Get one tip each week sent to you to help get it under control. [more inside]
How to Choose Your Next Technology Stack
https://buttercms.com/blog/how-to-choose-your-next-technology-stack
Correios CEP gem updated
Find Brazilian addresses by zip code, directly from Correios database. [more inside]
date-formatter gem - date formatter by example; auto-builds strftime format string
Hello, I’ve put together a new date formatter gem that lets you format dates e.g. “January 02, 2006” using an example as a format string e.g “January 02, 2006” instead of the classic strftime format specifier e.g. “%B %d, %Y”. The date by example adds: String#to_strfime, Date#format, Time#format, DateTime#format, NilClass#format to the built-in classes for easy use. Happy date and time formatting. Cheers. Prost.
The Top Ruby HTTP Clients to use in 2020
So you want to make HTTP requests in your Ruby project, but you are not sure which clients to use? Have a look to the list of the top Ruby HTTP clients and pick the one that fits you best.
Docker Setup for Service Based Architecture Application
https://blog.joshsoftware.com/2019/02/11/docker-setup-for-service-based-architecture-application/ [more inside]
The fastest way to prototype API in your Rails app
https://github.com/igorkasyanchuk/fake_api this gem I 100% sure is the fastest way how you can build an API in your Rails application. See the demo in the readme!