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...
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...
Dealing with your first scheduled background job.
Are you new with background jobs and you don’t know where to start? Do you sometimes don’t understand some posts because they all take for granted that you already have some knowledge? Well, don’t be afraid because you...
Using serialized fields in rails
Hi everybody, in the past days I stored some codes for a model called: Activity. I did this because some activities needs the codes to be completed so the user would have to do the activity and then ask for the code to the admin and...
Have you ever had difficulties adding authentication to an API which had already set up devise authentication? I encountered the same issue while trying to apply devise_token_auth in my project. In this post, I am going to show you how to solve this problem; presuming that you have already configured an API with CORS. First of all, you need...
Adding Docker to your Rails workflow
One of the challenges we face when we are developing an application, is having a uniform development stack among team members. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to use Docker and docker- compose to manage your rails application...
Generating documentation with Rspec Rails Swagger
Keeping the documentation updated while the API has been developed is one of the most demanding tasks regardless of the language that you’ve selected for your backend. There are many tools for managing and keeping your documentation...
Rails 5 meets Webpack and React
Why Webpack? JavaScript applications are getting more complex every day and developers are taking advantage of new versions of the language, new ways of coding are becoming more popular as well, that means lots of modules with dependencies,...
Using the get schwifty gem
Hey there, today I’m writing about an interesting gem I used some days ago to render some slow pages. This gem has an interesting workflow. It renders a loading page that we’ve already defined while a background task makes...