Helping ruby developers to use the best tools for each job so they can solve hard problems, with less bugs and have more free time.
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.
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…
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…
This is a very opinionated post, dealing mostly with what I think makes a senior developer, the main focus will be Ruby because that is my main language today, but most of the things I’m commenting here are completely independent of programming language. Probably lots of people have a different idea of what is a…
Beware of default scope, most of the times it appears to be helpful, it will just be causing you hidden bugs to deal with later
Ok, this is just my opinion, and if you are a junior developer you do not need to know how to put anything in production, but it is your responsibility to learn before you get promoted to anything else than Junior. And I’m not talking just about Ruby developers here, any developer that is not…
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…
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…
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…
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…