How to Implement a GraphQL API in Rails

Let’s explore how to implement a GraphQL API in Rails, something that giants such as GitHub and Shopify are already using in production. Read here.

ExceptionAlarm for Ruby

This simple gem play an alarm sound when an exception is raised on your Ruby code.

We're a Ruby dev shop and we will continue using Ruby

For the past years, there’s been a growing trend of Ruby dev shops/boutiques/consultancies switching to Elixir or Node. The market is undoubtedly changing and new technologies might be fancier and a good way to broaden one’s toolbelt. Read more

Whats new in spree 3.3

A Review of the Hanami Web Framework

This review tends to answer a question if Hanami is really a good alternative to Rails, what features it has and is followed by an attempt to make a simple CRUD application in six hours. Read more

An Introduction to the Crystal Programming Language

Base Rails 5.1 app to get projects started faster

Zen Rails Base Application is a “skeleton” application for Ruby on Rails 5.1 projects, with many pre-configured tools and features. Its purpose is to minimize the time spent writing boilerplate code and performing repetitive setup tasks when starting a new project.

Why I do not use strong parameters in Rails

Strong parameters have supposedly been an improvement in Rails 4. Yet, it feels to me, they were more a marketing trick after Github’s hacking, than a real feature. Read more

13 more gems I use all.the.time

A few months ago I posted an article/story about the 27 Gems I use in Almost Every SaaS Project. Here are a few more gems for your arsenal that may help you out!

A fast chess library that use bitboards to play chess with Ruby

A fast Ruby library to play chess with Ruby. This library is quite fast because rappresent the game situations with bitboards. In addition, the move generator is written in C as a Ruby extension.

BatchLoader: Kill Your N+1 Queries

I created a gem BatchLoader – an adapted Ruby implementation of battle-tested tools like Haskell Haxl and JS Dataloader. I believe that every Ruby developer should know about batching as a technique which helps avoid N+1 queries ✌️

Ruby on Rails with Visual Studio Code

I wrote an article on how I use Ruby on Rails with Visual Studio Code, after switching from Atom recently.

Yard-Junk: getting rid of junk in your YARD docs

Yard-Junk is a new YARD plugin/patch, that provides structured documentation error logging and documentation errors validator, ready to be integrated into CI pipeline.

[Screencast] ActiveRecord Migrations

This episode covers different tips and tricks around database migration files. https://www.driftingruby.com/episodes/activerecord-migrations

5 Years of Professional Ruby and Rails Development - My Reflections

As hard as it is for me to believe, I already have over 5 years of professional experience in Ruby and Rails. Throughout all these years my attitude towards Rails has been fluctuating between going from blind love to harsh critic (ActiveRecord, I’m looking at you) ending with a bit more balanced but certainly a positive approach. Such time is long enough to have a meaningful opinion about the overall experience using any framework, so here are few points about Rails that I would particularly like to focus on in my reflections. Read more

Tutorial on how to integrate a Third Party API using Rails 5

Learn how to do a Third Party API integration in Rails 5 using Faraday.

How to work with Rails-based ecommerce platform, Shoppe

How to work with Rails-based ecommerce platform, Shoppe

Best practices for building a Rails admin interface from scratch

Active Admin is great for quickly rolling out a simple CRUD interface to manage your app’s data, but sometimes you need something more customized. If you are considering building an admin panel from scratch, be sure to follow these best practices or you might regret rolling your own down the road. http://www.carlosramireziii.com/best-practices-for-building-a-rails-admin-interface-from-scratch.html

beer.db.starter Sample - Build Your Own HTTP JSON API (w/ beerd.db)

Hello, I’ve updated the beer.db web service starter sample that gets you started building your own HTTP JSON API using the beer.db (and friends). What’s news? The starter sample now uses the new webservice library (a simplified sinatra 2.0-style library for HTTP JSON APIs). Enjoy. Cheers. Prost.

Improving Deletion Performance in Algolia's Ruby Library

How we found out that deleting objects from Algolia was slowing down our server and what we did to improve it. Read more

Translate your ActiveRecord attributes without stress or bloat

In this article you’ll see how easy it is to provide translated attributes in your ActiveRecord records without relying on external librairies thanks to native JSON fields.

New Syntax for HTML Tag helpers in Rails 5.1

Rails Custom Loggers

Custom loggers are useful if you wish to have a separate log file for different moving parts of your Rails application. This would make your logging more efficient and readable. (Eg: a file to record all the API request you received). Let’s have a look on them! Read more

Carrierwave Gem for file uploads in Rails

Carrierwave Gem for file uploads in Rails

Generate an application with a specific Rails version

Two simple ways we can generate rails app with specific version: