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...
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...
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...
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...
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 03 – ReactJS + AngularJS
Heriberto Pérez, Víctor Velázquez, Alejandro Espinoza, Ingenieros de Software en MagmaLabs comparten el tercer episodio De código, Café y Cervezas con temas de tecnología, desarrollo de software, entrevistas, eventos y conferencias....