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…
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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…
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…
ActiveRecord Migration UI gem
Really cool gem that allows you to run your pending migrations from the comfort of your browser.
Beware of Date.yesterday on your code (A timezone history)
This post is the write-up of how I fixed a production problem that happened a few minutes ago, and can probably save some time for you too, so read this and remember for your next code that deals with time
How to create a request scope for your rails application
Some time ago I missed one of the cool features from the time I worked with JavaEE, that was a request scope for some variables.
I know the instance variables on controllers do a great job simulating it, but I needed to access context in a completely different part of the application, that wasn’t always called from controllers, variables that should be scoped to that request.
So I thought, I could create something like that for my rails app.
Implementing authentication with Google Firebase and Rails 6.
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…
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…