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legacy app migration

Legacy application migration is the process of upgrading or using legacy programs and transitioning aging or outdated software systems to modern platforms. Why does it matter to migrate legacy anything? Because legacy applications, while once the crown jewels of tech innovation, can become ticking time bombs. They pose security risks, hinder agility, and are often costlier to maintain than to replace. [more inside]

Deploying a Jekyll site with Kamal

If you are like me and you have Jekyll sites that you would like to host alongside your Rails apps, you can deploy them with Kamal 2: [more inside]

why would someone deploy a static site on a VPS? Netlify, Github Sites, Gitlab …
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Rails View Patterns: Helpers vs Partials vs Presenters vs Decorators

In my previous post I covered Why use Presenters than Components OR Integerate Them Together so when to use helpers, presenters, partials, and decorators got missed. This article - Rails View Patterns: Helpers vs Partials vs Presenters vs Decorators covers this extensively with code examples from a production app. I hope you enjoy reading the article and get your Rails views organized.

Ruby Concurrency and Parallelism

I have been seeing a lot of discussion comparing Elixir with Ruby for its concurrency features. The point these discussions miss is that Elixir runs on top of ErlangVM which had concurrency built-in as it was developed for running humungous-large-scale telecom systems. Whereas, Ruby was developed by Matz as a Software Language easy to understand and write. Ruby already had concurrency features through threads and fibers since its 1.9 version and Ruby 3 added parallelism features through ractors. This article covers all these 3 in detail and with a lot of code examples related to even AI and ML. Read it here - Understanding Ruby 3.3 Concurrency: A Comprehensive Guide.

Why use Presenters than Components OR Integerate Them Together

This article covers a) What are Presenters? b) Why use Presenters c) Presenters vs Components d) How to Implement Presenters e) Presenters vs Decorators. For Rails newbies these are very confusing thus this article removes this confusion and helps new Ruby on Rails developers to learn how to properly architect their Rails 8 apps. Read it here - Why use Presenters than Components OR Integerate Them Together.

ruby -run

Ruby is well known as a language that is easy to use from the surface, but is very deep and complex underneath. That’s what we know and love about it as a language, but its standard library has a similar design and as such it contains many hidden gems. One of the gems I’ve learned about recently is un. [more inside]

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