Using Bootstrap 4 with Ruby On Rails

A quick walkthrough on how to add Bootstrap 4 to an existing Ruby on Rails application. We use the bootstrap gem to manage the files and updates, and update the stylesheet and JavaScript manifestos.

A Guide on Converting a Hash to a Struct in Ruby

A Guide on Converting a Hash to a Struct in Ruby

Spreadsheet Architect v2.0.1 released!

New version released of Spreadsheet Architect gem. Spreadsheet Architect is the simplest way to generate xlsx, ods, and csv spreadsheetsfrom your application.

Core Ruby Tools

A short exploration of several core tools (Rubygems, Rbenv/RVM, Bundler, Rake) that should be in every Ruby developer’s toolkit, with an emphasis on how the components fit together on your system. Includes troubleshooting tips.

Upgrade Ruby, find a bug

Some notes on finding a bug as a result of a Ruby upgrade. OpenSSL, Ruby 2.4.0, dotenv, all that.

yield default object

A pattern for passing object with default values for the caller to change only some parts of it. We often use it in testing.

Let's learn rack by re building it

Since there are lot of buzz happening about rack and http2 . I tried to learn how rack works by making a rack clone and wrote a blog post about it Read more

How to deal with technical debt?

I have shared my approach about How to deal with technical debt? Read more

Code refactoring - The when, the why and the who

A brief blog post explaining basic concepts about code refactoring, who should be doing it, why and in which cases. Read more

Airbrake: show unique error ids to speed up support

Instead of letting users explain how and where they got an error, let them tell you “I got error number 123423423424” and then simply open up all the details in airbrake with airbrake-user_informer

PolyBelongsTo reaches 1.0.0!

After two years PolyBelongsTo has its 1.0.0 release! PolyBelongsTo allows you to access model relations with ActiveRecord in a more across-the-board meta-programming friendly way. It includes database model relation integrity checking, deep nested relation cloning of model records, and plenty of nifty simplifications for your database relations. See PolyBelongsTo.

How to Read Ruby Documentation

Beginners use tutorials while experienced programmers read and refer to documentation. But how do you do that, exactly? This post explains the anatomy of a Ruby doc to help expand your understanding of Ruby:

Using Rails Admin with a Rails 5 API application

A followup to my previous article on adding Active Admin to a Rails 5 API. This time we’re using Rails Admin which is even easier than before to setup. - http://www.carlosramireziii.com/how-to-use-rails-admin-with-a-rails-5-api-application.html

Rails Optimization: Introduction to cache

Need to speed up your website’s performance? This article will introduce you to the basics of caching in Rails applications. -

How to grow your own web development framework from Rack (4 part series)

The 4 part series will cover what Rack is, how to use it to handle incoming requests, how to use templating techniques to return a response, and finally, how to extract common code to plant the seeds for your very own web application development framework. Read more

Testing Ruby's Unicode Support

To see how far Ruby’s Unicode support has come, I tested every string method to see which ones violate the principle of least surprise. The results are presented as a handy table that you can reference to see which string manipulation methods are Unicode-unfriendly. - http://blog.honeybadger.io/ruby-s-unicode-support/

gem "general_time"

Allows getting general time between two instances of Date/Time classes

Upgrading a Ruby on Rails application

Reasons on why you might want to upgrade your application may vary case by case. It might not be driven because of business needs but primary due to technical needs or concerns. Read more

Writing a one-time script in Rails

Have you ever wanted to import a bunch of data into your app from a CSV file? Or maybe you need to fix badly encoded characters in some of your customer reviews. These are “ad-hoc tasks.” As in, you probably only need to run them once. So what’s the best way to handle an ad-hoc task in Rails?

How To Run Migrations And Migration Actions From The Rails Console

Hanami v1.0.0.beta1

Feature freeze, automatic logging for HTTP requests and SQL queries. Final release by the end of March.

26+ New Themes - Dr. Jekyll's February '17 Edition - Midnight, Merlot, Bootflat, etc.

Let’s welcome the February’17 Edition of the Dr. Jekyll’s Themes of the Month series that highlights ready-to-fork (or ready-to-bundle) static (web)site themes. New themes include: Console by Jae Hee Lee, Emping by Rahmat Subekti, Papyrus by Hugo Sereno Ferreira, Alembic by David Darnes, Whiteglass by Chayoung You, Architect (Pages) by Jason Long, Dinky (Pages) by Diana Mounter, Hacker (Pages) by Jason Costello, Leap Day (Pages) by Matt Graham, Merlot (Pages) by Cameron McEfee, Malt (Cloud Cannon) by Mike Neumegen, Urban (Cloud Cannon) by George Phillips, Schemadoc by Gerald Bauer, Octopod’s Bootflat by Stefan Haslinger, and many more. Find all themes at the Dr. Jekyll’s Themes directory. Any theme missing? Add your theme! Happy Publishing with Jekyll ‘n’ friends. Cheers.

Introduction to Fixtures for testing

Fixtures are one of the important thing in Rails testing. Testing the application helps to debug it more efficiently and ensures the desired functionality to the application. Let’s have a look on them.

The right amount of tests with Test Pyramid

How many acceptance tests, integration tests, unit tests do you need to write in order to keep you app healthy? Test Pyramid might be the answer:

How to test a React app using capybara-webkit

After working on a Rails app with a React frontend, I wrote about some of the problems I faced when testing it using capybara-webkit, and how to solve them: