Clearing the air: How to test new features with Rails?
Reading Time: 4 minutesFeature specs are integral to a good test suite. Whenever we add new features to a web application,…
Mount a Solr search engine with Rails using Docker Compose
Reading Time: 4 minutesOne of the most interesting challenges while developing an application is indexing and searching for data efficiently. Solr…
How to Deploy your Rails App as easy as Heroku?
Reading Time: 5 minutesThis is your situation: You have this new shining and beautiful rails app which you have been working…
PDF and XLSX reports with Ruby on Rails.
Reading Time: 12 minutesHow to generate PDF and Excel reports on Rails using Wicked PDF and AXLSX. Wicked_PDF If you are…
What are ruby contracts and how we can use them?
Reading Time: 4 minutesWhat are Ruby Contracts? The gem author defines them as follows: Contracts which let you clearly and beautifully…
Authorization
Reading Time: 4 minutesAuthorization determines which actions a user can perform on an application There are a lot of alternatives which…
Searching with Ransack in Ruby on Rails
Reading Time: 6 minutesSometimes we need or we want to develop a module quickly and easily that includes filters, sorting, pagination…
The good and bad of ActiveRecord callbacks
Reading Time: 4 minutesCallbacks inside your rails controllers have sparked a lot of controversies. On one side, you have DHH advocating…
Roles and permissions in Solidus
Reading Time: 4 minutesFew days ago I was working on adding new roles with their permissions into a Solidus application, it…
Using serialized fields in rails
Reading Time: 2 minutesHi everybody, in the past days I stored some codes for a model called: Activity. I did this…