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Go Full Stack Rails: The Frontend Part 1
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 this post, we…
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Go Full Stack Rails: The Backend Part 2
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 ES6. There are…
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Go Full Stack Rails: The Backend Part 1
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 the days when…
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Introduction to ActiveRecord Models
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 means you are…
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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 variables. Everyone who…
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Using ActiveRecord to create atomic transactions
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, you take money…
