Posts - The Miners

Current Strategies for Client-side Communication Between Components

by Matheus AzziSeptember 26, 2016

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 Userspace
TL;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 Dmitry RochaSeptember 12, 2016May 30, 2023

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 Thiago Araújo SilvaJune 6, 2016May 30, 2023

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 Fladson GomesMay 3, 2016

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

by Thiago Araújo SilvaApril 27, 2016May 30, 2023

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 Mauricio KleinApril 23, 2016

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, …