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Hi! I'm Cecy. It rhymes with Jesse.

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Installation $ gem install facebook-messenger Usage Sending and receiving messages You can reply to messages sent by the human: # bot.rb require 'facebook/messenger' include Facebook::Messenger Bot.on :message do |message| message.id # => 'mid.1457764197618:41d102a3e1ae206a38' message. via Pocket

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This is a demonstration of using Api.ai and the Web Speech APIs (via the excellent SpeechKITT library) to add a voice interface to a web application. In this case, that application is the Spree e-commerce platform. In order to get this up and running, you'll need an account at Api.ai. via Pocket

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At the company that I work for, we have been using Docker to have consistent development environments for all of our engineers. This makes onboarding a new engineer a piece of cake. via Pocket

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This is simple! via Pocket

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I spent some time over the holiday break wrapping my head around Rails 5 with Redux. This will be an interesting stack to consider. Source code for the chat app is here. Live demo is here. via Pocket

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react-rails redux sample this is a simple example application using react-rails and redux rails 4.2.3 redux 3.0.4 react-rails 1.4.2 react 0.14. via Pocket

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Ever wondered why your page loads slower than it should when you do simple data representation or iteration over a bunch of data? One answer might be that you have the N+1 problem which slows your page significantly. via Pocket

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The Ruby Toolbox lists no less than 25 HTTP clients. Let’s look at how to retrieve and parse JSON results from a RESTful API using the four most popular Ruby HTTP libraries. net/http is built into the Ruby standard library. via Pocket

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rails-simple-search is a Ruby gem. It helps you quickly implement searching/filtering function for your web site. This plugin has paginating feature built in. If you're not looking for a full-text searching solution, this plugin will most probably satisfy all your searching requirement. via Pocket

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Say you have a blog and you want the user to be able to search your posts, you will need to add methods to both your posts controller and post model, and create a corresponding search form. You can choose the fields you’d like your search form to query. via Pocket

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+ SubmitFree Icon Packs by First-Class Designers. via Pocket

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Like the cow above, I also heard React.js was good and spent some time playing with it. Now that I'm pretty comfortable with React, I decided to write yet another tutorial on this subject. Before I begin, I'd like to clarify who the target audience is. via Pocket

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You’ve got a great design for your header and the content is well placed and flows nicely – but why stop there? When the viewer scrolls to the bottom of the page, are they greeted with only a credit link and a copyright notice? Your website’s footer is a great place to direct the attention of via Pocket

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In this article you will learn how to integrate ElasticSearch into a Rails application. A full-text search engine examines all of the words in every stored document as it tries to match search criteria (text specified by a user) wikipedia. via Pocket

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So you think you need Elasticsearch? Stop! First you should make sure that you actually need it! Many times, the problem that you're trying to solve could more easily be solved with some advanced SQL queries and maybe some new indexes. via Pocket

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This will be a two-part guide on my first experiences with Elasticsearch and Ruby on Rails 4. I've been a long time fan of Solr, and Sunspot with Ruby on Rails, as Sunspot has always been easy to implement without a big learning curve. There's also a lot of information out there for Sunspot. via Pocket

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