Ryan Boland

An example of adding recurring Stripe subscriptions into your Rails SaaS app quickly and efficiently.  Read

Blinking an LED with Elixir Nerves, and connecting to IEx via a serial port.  Read

When I started building my quadcopter, one of the first things I needed to figure out was how to communicate with the remote control.  Read

A brief recap of my Arduino Workshop.  Read

Bringing LibSass to Ruby & Rails  Read

Setup and maintain a custom icon font, and use it like Font Awesome.  Read

With CloudFlare's Universal SSL, it's now possible to get completely free, no hassle SSL for your PaaS hosted apps.  Read

You may have seen the announcement regarding the creation of Doge Serialized Object Notation (DSON). In this post I bring some of that magic to Rails.  Read

A challenge was issued to see who could come up with the best Raspberry Pi hack for our coworking space. When there, I find myself walking all the way down the hall to use the restroom, only to see that it’s occupied!  Read

One of my readers sent me a description of an upcoming project. I'm going to walk through this example of how I'd model the database.  Read

Allowing your user to undo destructive actions is a great user experience improvement that's unfortunately missing from many web applications. In this article I'll discuss implementing basic undo functionality with Rails & the Sidekiq gem.  Read

Background workers are necessary for almost all projects, and for some applications, background code can be just as important as the web facing code.  Read

Enumerators were mysterious to me for a long time. It turns out, they're quite easy to use and can be a very valuable tool!  Read

Entity relationship diagrams are a great way to quickly visualize the structure of a Rails database & project.  Read

I've made an effort improve my CSS/SASS workflow in the past few weeks, and I want to share what I've come across!  Read

Test Driven Development can still be performed (and still maintain its effectiveness) in even the simplest languages.  Read