I have recently set up a legacy project which is running on Rails 4 and Solr 5. It uses sunspot_rails gem to interact with Solr server. Because the project is pretty old with deprecated libraries, I decided to use Docker to run it on my local. Everything seems fine
I am not a PHP developer but recently I have been asked to build a Lambda service written in Ruby which calls Magento API via its OAuth Integration. That might sound simple because 3rd-party API integration is not something new and I have done lots of similar tasks before. However,
A few days ago my colleague asked me to help him figure out why his Wordpress website was running so slow. Everything seemed fine, the CPU was not busy, the memory was not used much. It was not the network issue because its ping time was very fast. The MySQL
We have been told many times that modifying live database should be done with extreme care, we should always make a backup before doing something big to the database. However, there are countless stories on the Internet about losing data due to various reason, one of them is forgetting to
When running a few programs (like Web server or a script), do you notice that sometimes they print out "Good bye" message before exiting? I was wondering if I could do a similar thing in Ruby and it turned out to be pretty easy. First, I learned that
A few days ago I faced an issue in my Ruby on Rails application. The issue was caused by some duplicate rows in a very large the MySQL table (more than 1,5 million rows). The obvious solution of course is to remove duplicate rows from the table and add
Temp files are necessary in cases when you need to store some data before feeding it into another program. In this post, I am going to show you several ways of creating temp files and how to use them in Ruby code. Temp files or temporary files are files created
I am working on a deep learning model for text summarization and I use TensorFlow as my main framework. It is a great framework and contains many built-in functions to ease the implementation. However, when I trained my model, it was too slow. It took about 7 seconds to train
As a Web developer, we always look forward to building the best web applications. But things do not always go well with developers. Users nowadays ask for better UI, better UX. An inappropriate color for a link or a wrong position of an image on a website could become annoying
I am using OSX and I wanted to install git-cola for manage my Git projects. Unfortunately, after installing python using brew, I could not run it. When typing git cola to terminal, I kept getting the following error message: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/git-cola&
Designing a flexible layout which can scale to different screens on many devices is non-trivial. We often use float, position: absolution or other properties to achieve the desired result. However this process is uncomfortable to developers and we always dream of a better way. Today, I want to introduce to
UNIX is a base OS for many popular OS you are using right now, from Linux to Mac OSX. Those OS share common commands so it is pretty easy to switch from one OS to another. Because it is so important to understand and use UNIX commands, I want to