Definition of Ruby Tools
During the process of development we usually face any situation were to perform any particular operation we need to write too many codes, tools in the Ruby provide a mechanism where we can use them and reduce our efforts for writing longer code, a bigger advantage of using tools in Ruby as they are completely tested and guarantee the output for us, for example for authentication we do not require to write too many codes as we have already Ruby user Authentication, in the similar way we have tool called Ruby Logging, even for any background jobs and schedule we can use Sidekiq which allow us to handle all type of workers and scheduling works.
Top 5 Tools of Ruby
Following are the tools of ruby as given below:
1. Sidekiq (queue processing)
Sidekiq is the tool that is used to handle any kind of job scheduling in Ruby. It uses First (FIFO)In first out technology to manage the jobs. This will be mostly used for background job purposes. It allows us to scale our application. Sidekiq contains three main components for its work: redis, client, and server. By using the code MyWorker.perform_async(arguments) client will be able to create a job. Redis used to for holding the data, the data may be for history, etc. The server used to pull the jobs from the redis created by the client and process the jobs. Real-time uses of SideKiq is suppose you have one application and you wanted to send a notification to all the user on some events, so instead of sending them this notification one by it is better to use the tool Sidekiq which handle all the notification and scheduling them in the form of Redis First in First out queue system.
2. AppOptics (for performance)
SolarWinds gives us a very important tool to manage the performance of Ruby applications. With the help of this tool, we can manage and see the performance of the application on a real-time basis. Here realtime means showing any ups and downs in the performance instantly without any wait, which makes developers and tester quicker on the corrections on the fault in the performance. We can see here the all call it getting from the remote and list of the database query which affecting the performance of the application. The good thing about AppOptics is it allows us to have one beautiful UI tool to see the flow of the various performance parameters. It has an attractive dashboard with graphs of various activities from the code flow to the database query.
3. Loggly (managing the Logging)
You know it is very important to manage the logging of any application, here logging means all the activity done by users in the application, let take an example if we have an on shopping application and we wanted to track all the activity done by the customer from adding the product into the cart to making payment. The main benefit of using these leggings is we can track the activity done by the users, so it may be possible that he may claim that he made the payment but applications have not received the payment. So with the help of the logging, we can see where the faults are. It allows us to configure our application with mail services where we can get the mail notification for quick actions. At the same time, it also gives us the dashboard to handle the logging activity. We do not require any additional infrastructure as it is totally based on the cloud and agentless architecture. To start logging it is just small time of activity.JSON in the form of the event will be accepted by the logglier.
4. Devise (Authentication)
To implement authentication we need to do a lot of things which consist of security issues along with the issue of performance time taken to complete authentication and to achieve all these things we may need too much time and resources. So to deal with all these things we have a tool called Devise. This is completely free and it is open-source hence anyone can use it free of cost. It allows us to manage user authentication, session management. We can also use the feature of email covering like email confirmation. It has the ability to handle multiple user sessions and also we can implement the password recovery with the help of this tool.
Its main advantage is it is made completely based on the MVC architecture so it will fit great with the MVC framework. Here we can easily use the Devise tool for authentication with modular architecture. Devise contains various core modules under it, let us discuss some of the important core modules of the Device.
- Trackable: Suppose we wanted to track the sign in activity, here tracking means getting user IP address also we can get the timestamps. It will be more useful in case if we wanted to make authentication more secure and visible.
- Confirmable: You have seen many times email verification while login to any new application or login for the first time to any application, confirmation module makes sure if the user trying to login has verified his email or not .
- Lockable: Again this is a very important module, it mostly used in banking or very secure applications. Many times when you make several attempts for failed login then you get blocked for some time. Lockable plays the same role here, it checks if the maximum number of attempts reached in that case block the user.
5. Geocoder (Location Tool)
This tool is used for work related to the location and it is a completely free tool as it is open source. We can integrate it with Ruby on Rails, Mongoid, and other API. It allows a developer to implement the reverse and forward geocoding and also it has the ability to caching(with the help of caching we can increase the performance without calling data from main memory) which makes it very useful.
Conclusion
From this tutorial, we learned about the Ruby tools and we learned about the Ruby tools uses and its various types. We focused on some of the important Ruby tools which help us for faster development with better performance. We saw they are easy to use because of their modular structures.
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