When you are using Sidekiq to handle asynchronous jobs, some times there are exceptions and jobs failing, and I say sometimes because your environment is probably perfect, there is no lag, all services your jobs depend on are always on and responsive, and you probably write better code than most other developers 😛 otherwise it…
Author: Rodrigo Urubatan
Quick tips that help: rails notes
This is actually not new, the command is there for a long time, but it is one of those things that help and you keep forgetting about. It works by searching your code for comments with specific keywords, the default is searching for FIXME, OPTIMIZE and TODO. You can add more tags either by using…
Ruby 3.2.0 released with WASI, YJIT, RegExp improvements, …
Last 25 of December while we were all celebrating with our families the Ruby core team released our Christmas gift. The release 3.2.0 of Ruby is faster and brought some amazing tools for us. WebAssembly support Ruby 3.2.0 added initial support for WebAssembly through WASI, this allows running CRuby in a web browser, for example…
Rubyconf Thailand quick summary and slides
Early this December happened the second edition of one of the best ruby conferences I’ve participated up to now! The Bangkok.rb team did an amazing job of organizing 4 amazing keynote speakers and a total of 19 speakers and attendees from over 20 diferent countries. The organization team did an amazing job of receiving the…
Testing download contents with Cucumber+Capybara and chromedriver
Working on a project these days where I work with Cucumber and Capybara, I had to test the contents of filed downloaded from the application, the downloads were being sent using “send_file” and chrome was adding them directly to the user Downloads folder, and the capybara tests had no access to the file contents after…
When Kubernetes is not the right choice?
As with anything in the technology field, there is no one size fits all solution… And even kubernetes solving a big amount of problems you might have when exposing and scaling your application, it also brings some problems that you need to weight before deciding if this is the right technology for you or not….
Rails from “zero” to kubernetes – ingress reverse proxy
Following up on the ‘Rails from “zero” to kubernetes’ series, we’ll see today how to expose your service to the internet, since I think we all agree that mapping directly the port of your rails app to the internet is not a really wise choice.
Kubernetes has a “simple but works” solution called ingress, ingress is an HTTP proxy, it will work as a reverse proxy for HTTP and HTTPS for any service that exposes one one port.
Rails from “zero” to kubernetes – horizontal autoscaling
Following up on our previous post, we’ll now make kubernetes work for us, and automatically scale our application.
One of the really cool kubernetes features is the ability to automatically span new pods for your deployment based on the CPU usage of your pods. This is kinda simple, but very useful.
Rails from “zero” to kubernetes – a service to access your pod
In the previous post, we created our first kubernetes pod, but one important part is missing, it is not possible to access that application, we’ll solve this with a service now….
Rails from “zero” to kubernetes – first pod
Last year I wrote about using docker-compose to have a test/development environment similar to your production environment (you can check the post here) My environment kept growing and becoming more complex, and I started using docker swarm to deploy the applications, and after some time I started using kubernetes, I’ve learnt something about kubernetes in…