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…
How to use docker to have an uniform development environment for your rails project
Lets say you work on a company, and there is more than one developer at the company, and sometimes other developer is hired and need to configure the development environment. Or maybe you work on an opensource project and you want to make the life of anyone that is contributing to the project easier. Or…
Quick and Dirty introduction to ActionCable – the best WebSockets for Rails!
This post is a followup and a translation of my presentation from “The Developers Conference Florianopolis 2018” What are WebSockets good for? Update the screen of many clients simultaneously when the database is updated Allow many users to edit the same resource at the same time Notify users that something happened Among many other things….
3 common problems of rails application deployments (or any platform really, these problems happens to everyone)
Rails is a really cool framework to work with, but it is not fall proof, and it will not prevent you from doing stupid things, having that said, even with the best tools available, putting a new software in production, or doing a significant upgrade to a software that is already in production is always…
WebPack on Rails! – the easiest way to use the new Javascript syntax on your rails apps with the newest frameworks
I had some rails projects that needed a better UI or a different feature in the UI, and there was the perfect javascript library, the problem was that it needed “require.js” and it is not really easy to integrate require.js in asset pipeline. The good news is that there is a webpack gem that will…
Git deploy – how to implement git deploy in a project
Lately I’m becoming a lazy developer, and this reflects in my work. I tend to choose the easiest solution that will work for any project, and sometimes a simple project, is still in it’s early stages and it does not pay to configure a capistrano deploy or anything fancy, so I’m just using git to…
How to improve Rails testing speed using Git
I did a presentation in 2018 RubyHACK and will do the same presentation in 2018 TheConf called “Put Git to work: increase the quality of your project, and let git do the boring work for you”, one of the subjects in the presentation is how to use git to run tests only for the changed files…
Git + Lazyness = happy Rails developer
I had some problems that you probably have too, if you are a ruby developer that works in a team… Check if you have at least one of these problems: Someone commits something that does not passes the test suit Someone have deployed a version of the rails application without precompiling assets Similar to the…
How to integrate Ruby on Rails and Google Firebase to send offline notifications to your users!
First, firebase is not the only solution for this, but I like their approach, it is simple and multi platform, and really easy to integrate in a rails application. Of course Firebase has a lot more features, but to keep this post short, we’ll focus only on this feature today. Remember that to use it…
8 things that will save your time working with Xamarin and Rails (Or the summary of my presentation about mobile development with Xamarin at TDC Porto Alegre 2017)
In the last “The Developers Conference Porto Alegre 2017” I presented a talk about common pitfals found while creating a mobile application using the Xamarin.Forms mobile platform. If you want to check the slides they are in my slideshare, just Click Here. But right to the point, the idea of this post is to summarize…