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Optimize your Rails Code with Bullet Gem and Speed Up your site!

by Kevin

Why Bullet Gem?  For this Rails optimization, we'll focus on optimizing repeated SQL calls to retrieve objects associated with many relationships: N+1 queries problem. The solution to such an issue is an eager loading association.  Unoptimized N+1 affected code takes a significantly longer time as N times additional SQL calls are needed.  But, we should be careful when using that eager loading approach. This because unused eager loading can deteriorate our Rails app performance instead of improving…
Score: 4.96

Implement Two-factor-authentication in Rails with Devise, ActiveModel::Otp, and Google Authenticator

by Kevin

Background  There are many gems for implementing two-factor authentication for Rails app out there. But, most of them don't work properly with Devise out from the box.   Some gems offering seamless integration with Devise gem never work smoothly with our existing Rails app. This is why we share our experience and strategy to implement two-factor authentication using Devise and ActiveModel::Otp gems.  This implementation, based on our experience, works very well with the latest Google Authenticator app…
Score: 3.57

How to create Accelerated Mobile Page (AMP) in rails website

Accelerated Mobile Page (AMP) is a framework for creating a fast and light-weight mobile website.  There are not many ruby gems for creating AMP pages for the existing Rails website.  We find one like rails_amp. But it doesn't fit our needs. That's why we come up with our solution. It's a simple but powerful one. Here's how we create AMP pages for our Rails website.            Add custom Mime::Type  We add custom Mime at config/initializers/mime_types.rb       It's only one line code. The code registers amp as a new…
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Freelance Writing in a Post-COVID-19 World

    How long will the shadow of the Corona Virus pandemic darken future history?   We do not know. Therefore, there's no way to know how much I should exposit COVID-19 in this here paragraph. Obviously, if I'm talking to readers in the short term, you're all sick of hearing about it. But did the pandemic gets cured by, say, 2021? Do I have to go back over what it was like for audiences in the 2030s? Or is it indelibly ground into the pages of history textbooks like the 1918 Spanish Flu was?  Just from…
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No More White Silence

  I keep grasping for words, but I know better - there are none. There is only grief, rage, and anguish. Would you expect anything less from so much senseless loss of life?    I don’t have words for the losses of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and the countless others whose lives have been taken simply because of the color of their skin. No words of mine can fill the space their lives once held.     I can, however, speak out against the systemic racism and white supremacy that is still…
Score: 2.32

Motherhood

First time Mom

    As the saying goes “you will never realize how much your mother love you until you became a mother yourself too.”       Last July 9, 2014 I gave birth to my daughter Andrei Monique with my mother Ellen by my side all along. Francis, my husband is a seafarer and on board at the time our daughter was born. Andrei Monique weight 2.9 kg delivered via C-section at around 1:20 pm, she was a bouncing healthy baby. When my baby was born I knew from that moment that my life will never be the same…
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Mental Health

Music That Can Help with Depression

by CFC123

Music is a powerful tool. It can make us smile or cry, inspire anger or peace, even create feelings of romance or enlightenment. Music in society channels someone’s emotions and thoughts into a universal medium, relying on complex sociological interconnections that allow two individuals from different walks of life to have two unique experiences with the same song.     The power of music has been used throughout history to soothe life's ailments, and depression is historically no exception. Since…
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Language Can Indicate Psychopathy

Psychopaths make up close to one percent of our general population and about 25 percent of male convicts in prisons are psychopaths. These are people that show a lack of empathy toward others, a lack of guilt or remorse. They also have very shallow emotions, they can be impulsive, have superficial charm, and a grandiose sense of self-worth. But many psychopaths are people that never actually commit horrible crimes or hurt others. According to researchers, brain scans of psychopaths show an…
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The long way back to normality

     There is a surge of superficiality in the world right now, a trend that has, regrettably, also influenced me. I have had a date with destiny that was long overdue and been faced with the harsh reality that I ultimately created for myself. It was brutal, and I had to deal with the consequences of my poor life choices, only to discover that I was ill-equipped for real life. This is a tale of caution but also one of hope, depending on your perspective. People, under enough pressure, will change…
Score: 1.06
Study Abroad

Nontraditional Student in Japan

  Introduction  Have you ever felt that the world is outside of your grasp?  Things happen to everyone else, why would they happen to you?  That dream job you’ve always wanted, but resigned yourself to never being good enough for it?  This was what I felt even as I started at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. My life was surrounded my dead-end retail jobs and wasn’t going anywhere. After five years of this, however, I reevaluated my life.   Why did I believe that I couldn’t do more? It was time for a…
Score: 1.57
100% Worldwide Renewable Energy Now

If Anybody Cared About Climate Change, We Could Have Solved It By Now

    Once upon a time, there was a caveman who wanted to make energy.  Maybe he wanted to stay warm at night, or he wanted to cook food, but that's not the point. The point is, his first idea to generate energy was to gather up wood, rub some flint and steel together, and make a fire.  Setting things on fire proved out to be a handy way to generate energy. This method was the preferred way to make energy until after millenniums of progress, through the Stone, Bronze, and Iron Ages, into the Renaissance…
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Dating and relationships

Appearance in the current dating scene

by Dominus

Dating is an amazing part of life and the introduction of a relationship. Some people love it, some dread it, and some people seek it out while others actively avoid it. However it may be for each individual, everybody has an opinion and/or feelings regarding this subject. Dating or courtship has been around for as long as there have been people walking the earth. The practice has undergone many changes over time but its goal has remained the same: finding a partner.      It is said that beauty lies…
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Monogamous relationships vs. Open relationships

by Dominus

I see movies or series on TV or the internet exploring the nature of relationships and that leads me to wonder which one is better: monogamous or polygamous? I find monogamous relationships too old-fashioned while open relationships are too, well… open! I have tried both and finally came to my own conclusion, but I believe that others are struggling with this choice as well. The world is constantly changing and this change comes too fast for some of us. While I consider myself a  sexually…
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The player’s guide to success with women

by Dominus

Hello there, aspiring player! Are you having trouble getting the attention of females? Is your face so ugly that even Russian mail order brides swipe left on you? If you feel down on your luck and want to change that, then BECOME A PLAYER (to be read as "PLAYA") TODAY!!! No prior knowledge of women required! All you have to do is to embrace the player attitude, attire and general way of life. There is hope for you yet if you decide to become a P.L.A.Y.E.R. (Person Longing for Attention and…
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Relationship Advice

Signs It's Time To End A Relationship

In order to make a relationship work, you have to invest a lot of time and energy into it. The more work you put into a relationship, the more it affects your entire life. If you've invested a lot in a relationship with someone it can be hard to let go. This is especially true if children are involved or if you are worried you haven't really tried hard enough to make things work. It's also hard to be alone and if you haven't been single in a long time it can be scary. And depending on how long…
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Modern History

We Should Be Looking At The Robber Barons of Yesterday to Protect Against The Tech Barons of Today

The six largest companies on the planet are now technology-based. Like the industrialist of the late 19th century, they disrupted their industries and changed the way they worked. In the process, they repeated the same destructive decisions from the past.       Businessmen or Swindlers?   While it wasn’t a new term — it dates back to the Middle Ages and used to describe feudal warlords — the name stuck on business tycoons in the 19th century. Originally, they were portrayed as positive self-made men…
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Editorial

College is NOT for everyone; Don't Force it!

When I was in high school, I had one goal. Get into a good college so that I can get a good job and support myself in the future. But now as I have finished my bachelor’s degree I am looking back on what decisions led me to decide to go to a traditional university; however, that’s the weird bit.  I don’t remember making any decisions about my future…. Almost as if going to college was the only option and was what was expected. But was it the best option? And have other people in my life had the…
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Problems in Financial Career

UNDERSTANDING CRYPTOCURRENCIES, PART 2

The world of cryptocurrency has witnessed some changes of late, because mixed feelings are emanating from many nations about regulations that will determine how they handle them, and notable among these countries are the United States, Japan, South Korea, Singapore and India among several others. It is important to mention this, because the uncertainty has resulted in a massive sell-off in nearly all the major cryptocurrencies, and with the bears dictating the market direction of bitcoin. Well…
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EXCUSES BLOCKING WAY OF FINANCIAL MULTIPLICATION

In recent period, financial status and monetary issues are of utmost importance. So, through some online research, books and gathering that data along with my personal experiences, I have come to spot out five major money excuses that maybe hurdling or blocking your way to money multiplication.   But before moving onto those excuses, you need to be clear in your concept on what a financial statement is. Financial statement is actually a statement that shows how much you own after you pay off your…
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UNDERSTANDING CRYPTOCURRENCIES, PART 1

The latest buzz words in the world of business investment (no pun intended), and daily conversations among common folks are without a doubt, “Bitcoin, “and possibly “Cryptocurrency.” The former, in particular, have gained a global appeal and prominence, in part, due to a meteoric rise in price (almost 20 fold increment) from a lowly $950 USD at the start of 2017, to a high of nearly $20,000 in December of the same year. But what exactly are “Bitcoin” and “Cryptocurrency” and how do they work? It…
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U.S. Office of the President

Trump vs. Who Exactly?

The more days past, the farther Donald Trump seems to drift from his party. Though he ran on the Republican ticket, many were confused at his choice as in years past he had identified almost strictly as a democrat. Though he has made decisions that aligns him with both sides of the political spectrum. One day he is on board with the democrats, asking republicans to bend the knee; the next he is praising republicans and condemning democrats.  However, recent developments in the Immigration debate…
Score: 1.11