Ruby on Rails - The Miners

Cracking the Box Open with Module Factories
About the lesser-known Ruby Module Factories

by Thiago Araújo SilvaDecember 19, 2016

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 3
A pipeline of functional transformations

by Thiago Araújo SilvaDecember 12, 2016May 30, 2023

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 2
About ES6 Promises and improving Promise-based specs

by Thiago Araújo SilvaNovember 30, 2016May 30, 2023

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 1
A brief introduction to test-driven frontend development

by Thiago Araújo SilvaNovember 7, 2016May 30, 2023

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 2
Building a timeline wrapper to isolate external dependencies

by Thiago Araújo SilvaOctober 20, 2016May 30, 2023

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 1
Working on the backend, exploring requirements and building a Rails controller to deliver timeline tweets

by Thiago Araújo SilvaOctober 18, 2016May 30, 2023

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 …