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  3. How the Defense Digital Service uses the Design System for a Ruby app | U.S. Web Design System

    The U.S. Web Design System (USWDS) is a library of design and code guidelines to help agencies create trustworthy, accessible, and consistent digital services. The Design System is being used on over one hundred government sites, with an audience of 120 million users. In this 12th post in our series, we sat down with Jason Garber, front-end web developer at the U.S. Digital Service (USDS)‘s Defense Digital Service, to talk about his work creating a Ruby gem for the new Move.mil that integrates the Design System into a Ruby on Rails application.

    I was recently interviewed by the team behind the U.S. Web Design System about the uswds-rails Ruby gem I put together. Yay, open source!

  4. Chunked transfer encoding in Rails (streaming)

    Using the Transfer-Encoding: chunked header, the server will send chunks of the rendered page back to the browser so in the case of Rails, it starts with the layout and sends out the <head> part including assets like js and css.

    Chunked transfer encoding is a great way to improve page performance for the parts of your application that require time-consuming database queries. The Rails-level changes are straightforward, but unfortunately not all Ruby web servers support the feature (looking at you, Puma).

  12. Using browser-sync with Compass, Jekyll, and Foreman

    In this post, I'll cover how I combined browser-sync with a couple of my favorite tools (Compass, Jekyll, and Foreman) to build out a static site and make browser and device testing easier.

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  14. The Bastards Book of Ruby

    The Bastards Book of Ruby is an introduction to programming and its practical uses for journalists, researchers, scientists, analysts, and anyone else whose job is to seek out, make sense from, and show the hard-to-find data.

    This does not require being “good at computers”, having a background in programming, or the desire (yet) to be a full-fledged hacker/developer. It just takes an eagerness to be challenged.