Woody Zuill on How Mob Programming Makes the Difference

An insightful interview about the benefits of mob programming:

store_model 1.0.0

store_model is a gem for wrapping JSONB values to ActiveRecord–like models. Read more

New Whatsapp SDK gem!

Whatsapp just announced its Cloud API with Whatsapp messaging. I built a Ruby gem and decided to make it open source. https://github.com/ignacio-chiazzo/ruby_whatsapp_sdk

Rails Polymorphic association-The Good, Bad and the Ugly

Rubocop - 4 ways to get rid of your frustration!

In this episode, I’ll show you how to ONLY LOVE Rubocop and never get frustrated by it. Read more

Fun with Rails Query Tracing

Ever needed to find the calling code source of some DB queries? Perhaps that one update to a deprecated column… Some tips on tracking active record queries with a few simple options.

How I made $15k so far helping people fix Ruby issues on Mac

In February, I launched Ruby on Mac to help people get a working Ruby development environment on their Mac. It’s been going great so far. I’m now starting to publish my monthly income reports and retros in the spirit of building in public. Here’s the one for May, which was my first $5k Month as a Solopreneur.

Full-text Search with Elasticsearch in Rails

If you’re finding performance bottlenecks with full-text search in your database, it may be time to switch to Elasticsearch. In this tutorial, Ianis introduces Elasticsearch and shows us how to implement an efficient search feature in Rails.

Ruby inheritance

A small recap of OOP notion here Read more

Migrating Rails cookies to the new JSON serializer

Read how I migrated marshaled cookies to JSON at Phrase.

New Glimmer DSL for LibUI Apps: RubyCrumbler and Rubio-Radio

Every once in a while, I get approached by people who ask a lot of questions about my Glimmer Ruby gems, but never complete any work in them, which is quite surprising given the fact that it takes less than a minute to run a Glimmer sample, less than 10 minutes to write one, less than an hour to build a small desktop app, and less than a day to build an app MVP (Minimum Viable Product). That is why I am very happy to learn that a couple of apps have been recently built with Glimmer DSL for LibUI by open-source developers who fully walked the walk, not just talked the talk. Read more

PKCE 0.0.0 - An OAuth companion gem

In the off chance you are working with OAuth and need a gem which implements the Proof Key for Code Exchange (PKCE) specification, then my new PKCE gem might be of interest. It’s a simple gem with a simple API for obtaining the verify and challenge codes you’ll need. Enjoy!

Rubber Duck Dev Show Episode 47 | Ruby 3 Keyword Arguments

Hear two rubyists discuss the keyword argument changes in Ruby 3:

Glimmer DSL for SWT Video Tutorial 21 - Hello, Drag and Drop!

Desktop development is about 10 times simpler than web development. Learn it and you will become a better web developer as you transfer the simplicity of desktop development to the web! Read more

Ruby-on-Rails ViewComponents

A short tutorial, from scratch, for ViewComponents. Read more

Speeding up views rendering in Rails 4

It is well known that rendering views and partials in Rails is somewhat slow compared to other frameworks. In one particular part of the Rails migration for a large corporate client of ours, I had to migrate an endpoint rendering ~ 200 views. Using the standard render approach, the request took ~ 23s. Now, it’s down to ~ 300ms. Read more

How to Effortlessly Build an Instagram Clone With Hotwire

In this video, we’re going to look at how you can build an Instagram clone with Hotwire.

State Machines in Ruby: An Introduction

Let’s build a simple state machine in Ruby and use the state machines gem:

Service object pattern in action

Ruby 3 adds Scheduler Interface for Fibers

Ruby 3 introduced Fiber::SchedulerInterface to support the concept of non-blocking fiber. With this new interface, we can split the long I/O operations into separate fiber hooks, and instead of us controlling the fiber execution, the Scheduler will manage it for us.

Cheatsheet about extending Ruby classes

Some simple explanation of how include, extend and prepend works. My first blogpost which is published somewhere :)

5 Easy to Miss Security Best Practices for Web Apps

Worrying about your app’s quantum resistance is a perfectly legitimate concern. But, in this blog post, I’ll take a step back and describe and few simple but easy-to-overlook security tips. In many cases, a single line of config can protect your web application from a range of attacks. Read more

xchan.rb: a lib for easily sending Ruby objects between Ruby processes

xchan.rb is a lib for easily sending Ruby objects between Ruby processes who have a parent<->child relationship. The implementation uses a UNIXSocket, and the serialization format of your choice - the default is Marshal.

Styling Simple Form forms with Tailwind

How we how we managed to style our new admin forms (built with Simple Form) with Tailwind CSS while keeping them flexible.

Scaling Rails web sockets in Kubernetes with AnyCable

At Brella - an event management platform - I am building our own chat to replace a third party service. To be able to scale web sockets more easily, I switched from regular ActionCable to AnyCable. I wrote a post on how I set this up in Kubernetes. Read more