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…
Tag: ruby
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…
Three things that make a senior Ruby developer (and how to get there)
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 rails default_scope – it might come back to bite you
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
What do you need to know to put your app in production in Ruby, Python, .NET, Java, …
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…
Have you ever needed to provide an “advanced search” to your users?
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…
6 Sidekiq tips and tricks for performance, mantainability and happiness!
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…
3 simple words you can use to improve your ruby code: ‘redo’, ‘retry’ and ‘next’
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…
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…