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,...
CanCan: Performance issue regarding usage of roles(has_role?) – Avoid N + 1 queries for abilities
Currently, in our project we use CanCanCan to control permissions/privileges. A common usage of CanCanCan is having multiple user roles, in that way we are able to grant/deny access to users depending on their roles and as a result...
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...
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.