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...
How to upgrade from rails 4.2.9 to rails 5.1 and don’t die trying
Hi there 👋 I’m going to show you how I upgraded Rails app from version 4.2.9 to Rails 5.1. The recommended way of upgrading your Rails application is doing it version by version, for example, in this case, we would...
De Código, Café y Cervezas 08 – Web Services
Heriberto Pérez, Alejandro Espinoza, Víctor Velázquez Ingenieros de Software en MagmaLabs comparten otro episodio De código, Café y Cervezas con temas de tecnología, desarrollo de software, entrevistas, y eventos. Invitado Especial:...