Deploy de App Ruby on Rails em VPS
by PaaS ou VPS? Ultimamente tenho preferido serviços PaaS como o Heroku, mas muitos clientes preferem uma VPS na maioria das vezes pelo preço fixo, mas …
Tag: Ruby on Rails
Cracking the Box Open with Module FactoriesAbout the lesser-known Ruby Module Factories
by Metaprogramming is one of Ruby’s most powerful, intriguing and hard-to-grasp features. Ruby has a deep kind of truth that I could not yet find in …
Go Full Stack Rails — The Frontend Part 3A pipeline of functional transformations
Although not mandatory, you can catch up with previous episodes if you haven’t already: The Backend Part 1: Working on the backend, exploring requirements and …
Go Full Stack Rails — The Frontend Part 2About ES6 Promises and improving Promise-based specs
Welcome! Each part of this blog post series drills down into a bunch of pertinent details, aiming to form the big picture of a clean, …
Go Full Stack Rails: The Frontend Part 1A brief introduction to test-driven frontend development
In “The Backend” part 1 and part 2, we mediated on the design of an endpoint to serve timeline tweets to a frontend client. In …
Go Full Stack Rails: The Backend Part 2Building a timeline wrapper to isolate external dependencies
Welcome! This series of blog posts is an endeavor where I walk the reader through building a real, albeit small full-stack application with Rails and …
Go Full Stack Rails: The Backend Part 1Working on the backend, exploring requirements and building a Rails controller to deliver timeline tweets
Being a great developer these days means to intelligently use available technologies to build full-fledged products that also feel durable and extendable, and gone are …
Introduction to ActiveRecord ModelsThis is a step by step guide to create, update and test ActiveRecord models. For detailed information please refer to Rails Guides.
Now that you know how to get up and running with Ruby (and Rails) from the article 4.5 Ways to Install Ruby in Userspace, that …
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, …