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...
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...
RailsConf 2017 Adventure
Hello, I want to talk to you about my visit to the city of Phoenix Arizona, where I was attending RailsConf 2017. Well, I want to begin by saying that this was my first international conference, I had never attended one of such magnitude...
De Código, Café y Cervezas 07 – ¿Somos profesionales?
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. Temas centrales:...
Fixing Rspec and Cucumber random failures in your Continuous Integration Service
When you have a large test suite chances are that some of the tests fail randomly and when this happens you are not going to want to re-run everything again. So here it is the configuration I always use for Rspec and Cucumber to re-run...
Administrate review
Recently I’ve been playing with Administrate a gem from Thoughtbot, for a new e-commerce project built from scratch. I needed an Admin dashboard to manage users, orders, products, etc.