Parsing Ransack strings to SQL queries in Golang
Recently we were working on migrating a Rails app to Go but, just before we started working, we realized that the app we were migrating used ransack to do some basic search. We looked for a library that could do the same thing in Go...
Reducing the number of error handling “if” statements (if != nil)
When I started learning Go, my code usually ended up looking like this: func GetDataFromFile(fileUri string) (*Data, error) { file, err := os.Open(fileUri) if err != nil{ return nil, err } fileBytes, err := ioutil.ReadAll(file) if...
Golang Tags
Hey guys! If you are a Go developer, you probably have used tags inside your structs. A tag is an optional string literal which you declare after a field. Here's an example: // A struct corresponding to the TimeStamp protocol buffer....
Sending SMS messages using Twilio and Golang
Recently, I had the opportunity to work on a Golang project which needed to send SMS messages. For this, I used Twilio, a service that allows software developers to programmatically make and receive phone calls and send and receive...
Sharing data globally within application with Gorilla Web Toolkit (golang)
If you have been a developer for several years, maybe you have been in a situation where you need to store some data and then be able to share that data between different modules within an application. Context For example, let's...
GoConvey and Deaf Grandma
If you have used Ruby on Rails, you may be familiar with Rspec, a gem that allows us to test your Ruby code in a very intuitive way. In Go, we have GoConvey: a library that allows us to write self-documenting tests for our Go code...
Understanding Google Cloud Datastore Keys (using Go)
If you are new to datastore, you will find that, unlike a relational database, Google Cloud Engine's datastore uses a distributed architecture which brings some benefits; such as scalability and some restrictions like the inability...
Custom Error Marshaling to JSON in Go
In this post I want to go through an example of data marshaling in the Go language. The example starts with this snippet: package main import ( "encoding/json" "errors" "fmt" ) type AModel struct { Name...