Annotations about React Higher-Order Components
by One of the best parts in React development is its functional approach for building user interfaces. This approach allows us to use the Higher-Order Component …
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Current Strategies for Client-side Communication Between Components
by These days we have dynamic and modern UIs in our Web Apps. We learned that the best way to build reactive and reliable UIs is …
4.5 Ways to Install Ruby in UserspaceTL;DR RVM is the fastest way to get things up and running. I really enjoy chruby and docker, try them if you have time ;)
by Recently a Rubyist friend of mine got a new client. He liked the client’s software idea, but the software was written in Python. Because of …
A Quest for Better Specs: Prefer Self-Containment
by Test suites all over Ruby land are frequently riddled with a bad obsession: one liner spec examples. No matter what level of complexity a particular …
Prevent a force pushing to master with ruby
by Yeah, everyone knows, it’s the mor law of versioned systems, NEVER do a git push -f on the default branch, never, even when you know …
Controller Best Practices: Don’t Hide Instance Variables
This is something I often mention in code reviews, and it’s also mentioned in some Rails guidelines elsewhere without further explanation: please, don’t hide instance …
Using ActiveRecord to create atomic transactions
by Imagine the following situation: You were asked to create a new wallet feature to an application. This wallet must allow money transfer between users. Basically, …
Data Bugs on Rails
Bugs are commonplace artifacts in any kind of software system. Most applications are filled with lots of bugs, for so many reasons that can’t even …
Why I moved from Vagrant to Docker as my default development environment?
You probably have already heard that old classic phrase: I don’t know what’s happening… It works on my machine… Vagrant came to solve this problem, …
Avoid to Get Outdated as a Developer
Here at Codeminer we use Ruby and Ruby on Rails as our main technologies, but we also deal with other ones such as Java, Swift, …