What are ruby contracts and how we can use them?
What are Ruby Contracts? The gem author defines them as follows: Contracts which let you clearly and beautifully express how your code behaves, while freeing you from writing tons of boilerplate, defensive code. You can think of contracts...
Authorization
Authorization determines which actions a user can perform on an application There are a lot of alternatives which can help us solve this functionality issue, now I will show you the Pundit way (maybe the Pundit-Enums way). The Pundit’s...
10 Best Practices recommended by QA
True quality comes from quality-minded people. Here are some best practices we recommend QA to follow while testing any application. 1. Focus on the user’s experience Testing is crucial during all the steps of a project, but the...
Automate all the things!
Motivation In a normal software development day, I do a lot of activities related to the task that I’m working on, and sometimes these activities take more time than expected, making them very repetitive. Tasks like starting...
Discover how to build great products
Our approach to UX in MagmaLabs Six months ago I started working on the UX design team at MagmaLabs. Most of my experience at UX was focused on everything related to education at pre-school, primary and secondary levels, therefore...
Searching with Ransack in Ruby on Rails
Sometimes we need or we want to develop a module quickly and easily that includes filters, sorting, pagination and we don’t want to spend so much time on it, that’s why there are already some implemented and tested tools...
Destructuring, the easiest way
In the last days, I have been working on a project with ‘React’, and every single day I have come across something called ‘destructuring’. The javascript community always talks about it, but, What is destructuring? What is...
The good and bad of ActiveRecord callbacks
Callbacks inside your rails controllers have sparked a lot of controversies. On one side, you have DHH advocating for the use of callbacks to manage auxiliary complexity, and on the other hand, you have people that call it The biggest...
Roles and permissions in Solidus
Few days ago I was working on adding new roles with their permissions into a Solidus application, it wasn’t that hard, but if you are new into Solidus, but you are already familiar with Rails and Cancan like me, you should read this...
5 Points to implement an eCommerce
We have seen a lot of times the great success of national and international companies which dare to venture into the ecommerce world, but, what makes the difference between a successful and unsuccessful ecommerce? It is a good question...