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After you spend some time working in the same Rails project, being this project whatever project you are working for some time now, you probably use the Rails console a lot, many reasons: Testing code Seting up data Using “binding.pry” to “debug” some controller or model Put whatever you are doing in “rails c” now…
When you look at the logs of your application in development, they may appear clear and concise to you (probably not thou), but when you are looking at the production logs and there are many simultaneous requests, sometimes it is difficult to know exactly what like of the log is the next entry, or what…
As programmers we usually select our preferred tools, our preferred language, IDE, code editor, … For the last years, my favorite programming language is Ruby, not only because of Rails (but of course it has something to do with it), but because the language is powerful and flexible, and as such has many details that…
If you are writing an API only rails app, your clients will need to authenticate in some way to use your API, you have of course many options to choose from: You can build your own authentication You can Use a plugin like Devise You can use OAuth both accepting other provider or implementing your…
Every now and then I remember a work mate from long ago asking how I was able to speech in many events in Brasil, and my answer was as simple as: “When they open the call for papers, I go there and ask if I can talk in the event, sometimes they say Yes” And…
One thing that I always wanted was to present a speech in an event outside Brasil, this objective was accomplished this year, thanks a lot RubyHACK team for this, and alto thanks a lot TheConf.Club, because last year’s event in São Paulo made me believe I could do a presentation in English. I’m Brazilian and…
It is surprisingly easy to configure log rotate to rotate your rails logs, don’t wait until your server is out of space. I think everyone knows a guy that simply put a rails app online, maybe even used capistrano to automate the deployment, and one year later the app simply stopped working due to lack…
Rails has a new library called ActiveJob, the idea of this library is to make it easier to create background jobs without worring about what library to use, and the specific API for each one, and even changing it if a better one comes out in the future without changing your application. ActiveJob will keep…
Following up the post about a Rails API only app, lets talk about why you should not use REST in your API app. 1: too much unneeded information Have you ever written a client application to any API? And when you did it, was there a query you needed to do that returned a lot…
Sometimes we need to create only an API, an application without a user interface, for example if you’ll have someone else built later a mobile client for that API, or even a full SPA web client, there are many reasons to build an API only app. And since there are that many reasons, rails helps…