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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…
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.
Of course you can still use AR validations, that is not my point. But data consistency related validations should not trust AR for that, for example, if you have a “unique” constraint, and you are just trusting the database, it is really easy to break the DB consistency if for some reason you have a…
Working on a project some time ago, and my boss wanted to have an advanced search, where the users could write the search, adding fields, values, like you can do with google, but tailored for our application. In google you can do things like searching for all posts from sobrecodigo.com that have Ruby in the…
Sidekiq is usually my “goto” backend processing engine when I’m writing a Rails application. Recently I had to write a small app that was not a web app, so it didn’t needed Rails, but I’m very comfortable with Ruby, and decided to write the background processing app, or a small “daemon” as we called it…
Back to docker and Rails, we’ve talked some time ago about how to dockerise your rails app, using docker and docker-compose to share a development environment configuration. To do that, we’ll use ECS service, that is the Elastic Container Service, this will allow us to build a docker container image, upload it to an ECS…
Rails 5.2.1 was recently released, and released and it brought some improvements to ActiveJob (most of it was already in 5.1 really, the only thing added on 5.2 was the callback on discard_on), but lets keep in the subject here 😀 Recently I published a very basic post about ActiveJob, and these declarative exception handling…
This is a very opinionated post, with some performance tips from someone that uses sidekiq for more than two years now, as as such I have already did some mistakes and learnt some tricks. My current opinion is that sidekiq is the best backend job engine for ruby/rails applications. And of course to use it…
Have you ever thought about how Rails console was not built for you to read the results of a query that returns more than one object? So, you are not the only one, and that is why there is a gem called ‘hirb’ that will blow your mind, it will make pretty tables of the…
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…