Enterprise applications typically generate large amounts of paperwork. When that paperwork comes as a PDF, someone must open the PDF, find the purchase order number, verify the amount and copy some details into another system. Nearby, a Rails application stores…
A scraper that worked on Friday and fails on Monday may have nothing wrong with its parser. The page might now be a login form, the proxy credentials could have expired, or the server could be asking the client to…
Build two small programs with one clear contract: Ruby exports a reading list and Swift decodes, validates and totals it.
Follow an order-summary program from data to output, then test empty input, incorrect types and missing keys.
Campaign spreadsheets get messy very fast. One person tracks followers, another tracks video views, and somebody else has the monthly service charge tucked away in a column. All of it relates to the same campaign, although the figures need different…
Choose a practical Ruby project by its inputs, output and failure rules, from a cleanup script to a shared web application.
GitHub, Shopify and Airbnb turn up in almost every list of websites made with Ruby. Familiar names are useful, but they only answer part of the question. How many sites use Ruby, and what does it mean when a crawler…
A Rails feature rarely stops with the Ruby code. A booking form needs a usable layout, a controller needs tests, and a slow dashboard may need its database queries reviewed. AI tools can help with these jobs, though each calls…
Salesforce imports seem simple until automation breaks Importing data into Salesforce can look straightforward. Choose a file, map the columns, test the records and move them into production. The administrative steps are familiar. The difficulties often appear later, when an…
Compare Ruby and Python scraping workflows, from fetching and parsing HTML to handling changed pages, crawl state and downstream data checks.