March 21, 2025 Hello ! Happy Friday! 🎉 Today, I wanted to dive into something that’s often a game-changer in application design: state machines in Ruby on Rails. A state machine is a powerful design pattern used to manage workflows, object lifecycles, or status transitions within your applications. It allows an object to be in … Continue reading Mastering State Machines in Ruby on Rails: A Friday Insight
March 20, 2025 Daily readers, today’s article is a bit different. Usually, I dive into a specific Ruby or Ruby on Rails topic, but today, time is short, and I need to handle different tasks. So, I’ll share a quick but useful real-world problem I encountered. Need Help with a Heroku Project? Do you need … Continue reading Handling File Transfers in a Heroku Environment with Net::SFTP
March 19, 2025 When developing a Rails application that involves structured data, testing is crucial to ensure that our data handling works correctly. Recently, I faced a challenge when testing a questionnaire system where I needed to run database seeds before executing test cases. Here’s how I optimized the process. Need to Improve Your Test … Continue reading Automating Database Seeding for Reliable Tests in Rails
January 10, 2025 When developing and maintaining Rails applications, error tracking is key to delivering a robust and user-friendly experience. While popular services like Honeybadger and Sentry are great, sometimes you need a lightweight, in-app solution that keeps things simple. That’s where Solid Errors comes in—a database-driven exception tracker designed specifically for Rails applications. Do … Continue reading 🚀 Simplifying Exception Tracking in Rails: Meet Solid Errors
January 9, 2025 Have you ever wished you could delegate tasks to an invisible assistant while you focus on what’s important? Well, in the world of Ruby on Rails, perform_async from the Sidekiq gem is that magical assistant! It helps you move tasks to the background, letting your application handle more important things—like keeping your … Continue reading Unlocking the Magic of perform_async in Ruby on Rails
March 18, 2025 Testing, like life, requires careful preparation, a little bit of chaos management, and an occasional cleanup. When it comes to RSpec, setting up and cleaning up your test environments might not sound like a rockstar feature, but let me tell you, if you skip these steps, you might as well be throwing … Continue reading Testing RSpec Environments: A Tale of Setup, Cleanup, and Preventing Total Chaos
March 17, 2025 This morning, I received a great question from a reader about where to write negative route tests in Rails. Since it's a topic that often comes up, I wanted to share my thoughts here. 🚀 Want to master route testing with RSpec? Check out my in-depth article: Mastering RSpec Route Testing in … Continue reading Writing Negative Route Tests in Rails 🚀
January 8, 2025 Strings are one of the most fundamental and widely used data types in any programming language, and Ruby is no exception. Whether you're building a web application with Ruby on Rails or writing scripts, understanding the power of strings in Ruby can make your code more efficient, clean, and expressive. In this … Continue reading Understanding Real String Manipulation in Ruby and Rails: From Characters to Performance
January 7, 2025 Concurrency and parallelism are key concepts in software development, enabling applications to handle multiple tasks efficiently. In Ruby, understanding and implementing these paradigms can significantly enhance the performance and responsiveness of your applications. Let’s dive into how Ruby handles concurrency and parallelism and explore practical examples to unlock the potential of your … Continue reading Concurrency and Parallelism in Ruby: Leveraging Threads, Fibers, and Beyond
March 17, 2025 Have you ever created a new Rails project only to realize you forgot to add a crucial parameter at the beginning? We’ve all been there! The rails new command is the first step when starting a new project, and making the right choices from the start can save you a lot of … Continue reading What Happens When You Forget to Add a Parameter When Creating a Rails Project?
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