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Getting Started with Capybara and Selenium for Web Testing May 12, 2025 In modern web development, automated testing is crucial to ensure application quality and stability. One of the most effective ways to test user interactions in a browser is with Capybara, a Ruby-based framework that provides a high-level API for simulating how users interact … Continue reading Getting Started with Capybara and Selenium for Web Testing
May 9, 2025 Security is no longer optional — every modern web app must support HTTPS. Thankfully, Let's Encrypt provides free SSL certificates, and with a bit of Ruby magic, you can integrate them directly into your Rails application. Recently, I worked on automating this setup and even contributed a pull request to simplify the … Continue reading 🔒 Free SSL Certificates for Your Ruby on Rails App Using Let’s Encrypt
May 8, 2025 In the world of web development with Ruby on Rails, the render method is one of the most fundamental and powerful features of a controller. As developers, we use it constantly to respond to HTTP requests by rendering content, be it HTML, JSON, or plain text. But how exactly does Rails decide … Continue reading Mastering the render Method in Rails: Behind the Scenes of Efficient Response Handling
May 7, 2025 When building complex applications, ensuring that data is valid and consistent is a key aspect of maintaining integrity. In Rails, there are several ways to achieve this through validations, callbacks, and associations. In this article, I’ll walk you through a comprehensive example of how to implement robust data validation, as well as … Continue reading Effective Validation and Data Integrity in Rails: A Comprehensive Approach
Scrutinizing External APIs in React: How I Integrated Real-Time Dollar Data May 7, 2025 In today's world, building dynamic applications that provide real-time data is more important than ever. With the right approach, you can make your apps not only interactive but also insightful for users by pulling in live data from external sources. One … Continue reading Scrutinizing External APIs in React: How I Integrated Real-Time Dollar Data
May 6, 2025 Recently, I updated the frontend of a React app to support multiple languages using react-i18next, enabling a seamless experience for both English and Spanish users. This approach helps build more inclusive applications — and it's easier than I thought before trying it! 💬 Want to build a modern multilingual frontend for your … Continue reading 🌐 Add Multiple Languages to Your React App Using react-i18next
May 5, 2025 In my recent project, I built a basic full-stack integration using Ruby on Rails as an API backend and React for the frontend, both running in Docker containers. The goal was simple: list users fetched from a Rails API into a React component. What surprised me the most? It turned out to … Continue reading 🔗 Connecting Ruby on Rails and React: Building a Simple User List API
May 2, 2025 In recent years, many Ruby and Ruby on Rails projects have adopted React for their front-end needs. Whether you're building a modern single-page application (SPA) or just enhancing parts of your Rails views, learning React can open up a new world of interactivity and frontend control. This article is my first step … Continue reading 🚀 Getting Started with React and Docker: A “Hello World” for Ruby Developers
The Definitive Solution to Your Rails + Docker + Time Zone Headaches! April 30, 2025 Tired of debugging timestamps that don't make any sense? You're not alone — but the fix is easier than you think. 🚀 Want to Improve Your Application’s Performance? If you're looking to optimize your Ruby applications and boost performance, get … Continue reading ⚠️ The Definitive Solution to Your Rails + Docker + Time Zone Headaches! 😵💫⏱️
April 29, 2025 Since Ruby 2.7, the Enumerable#tally method has provided a clean and elegant way to count element occurrences in an enumerable. While it's an excellent addition for code readability, many Rubyists have noticed that in performance-critical scenarios, it tends to be slower than the classic each_with_object approach. In this article, we’ll explore why … Continue reading Why Enumerable#tally Can Be Slower Than each_with_object in Ruby
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