Google has loads of services, and Firebase is one of my favorites because it provides lots of easy to use services that help me write one app for web and mobile. Today I’ll do a quick sample of how to use the authentication service from Firebase in your rails application. Most of it is javascript…
Month: May 2019
ActionText – the new rails WYSIWYG editor framework
https://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/action_text_overview.html In many projects we have the requirement to have a rich text editor available, for full documents, user profiles, blog posts, comments, product descriptions, … And every time we think, which editor to use, some times we just get our current favorite, or the one we used in the last project, in my case…
Three things that make a senior Ruby developer (and how to get there)
This is a very opinionated post, dealing mostly with what I think makes a senior developer, the main focus will be Ruby because that is my main language today, but most of the things I’m commenting here are completely independent of programming language. Probably lots of people have a different idea of what is a…
Beware of rails default_scope – it might come back to bite you
Beware of default scope, most of the times it appears to be helpful, it will just be causing you hidden bugs to deal with later
Simple and easy way to use ActiveRecord without Rails
After a question in my other post about how to use sidekiq without rails, I decided to also post here how to use ActiveRecord without Rails, the basic idea is the same, we’ll start with an empty directory and create the files as we need.