How to Use APIs in Ruby: A Step-by-Step Guide with Faraday, HTTParty, and Net::HTTP

May 26, 2025 If you're a Rubyist like me, you know that making an API call can go from a quick one-liner to a full-blown production-ready beast β€” and everything in between! Let’s take a journey through the best-to-least optimal approaches for making API calls in Ruby, with a dash of humor to keep us … Continue reading How to Use APIs in Ruby: A Step-by-Step Guide with Faraday, HTTParty, and Net::HTTP

πŸ” Debugging in Ruby: irb, pry, byebug, and debug β€” What You Should Know

May 21, 2025 If you've ever felt stuck trying to figure out why your Ruby code isn't behaving as expected, you're not alone. The good news? Ruby has several powerful tools to help you debug like a pro. Here are 4 tools every Ruby developer should know β€” whether you're a beginner or a seasoned … Continue reading πŸ” Debugging in Ruby: irb, pry, byebug, and debug β€” What You Should Know

βœ… Building Clean and Reusable UI with ViewComponent in Rails

May 20, 2025 As Rails applications grow in size and complexity, maintaining views can become challenging. Traditional partials and helpers often lead to scattered logic, reduced testability, and hard-to-maintain code. This is where ViewComponentβ€”a gem developed by GitHubβ€”comes in to bring structure and object-oriented design to your views. πŸš€ Need help with your Ruby on … Continue reading βœ… Building Clean and Reusable UI with ViewComponent in Rails

πŸ” Building Token-Based Authentication in a Rails API with JWT

May 19, 2025 A Practical and Maintainable Approach to Securing Your Endpoints by GimΓ©nez Silva GermΓ‘n Alberto Modern APIs require stateless, secure, and scalable authentication mechanisms. For many Rails developers, JWT (JSON Web Tokens) offer the ideal solution: they’re lightweight, portable, and perfectly suited to APIs where session-based auth doesn’t scale. In this article, I’ll … Continue reading πŸ” Building Token-Based Authentication in a Rails API with JWT

πŸš€ Mastering CD Across GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, CircleCI & Bitbucket β€” Deploying Seamlessly to AWS, GCP, DigitalOcean & Heroku

May 16, 2025 πŸ“Œ Don’t read this Unless you’ve read this article on mastering CI β€” otherwise you’ll miss the foundation of what Continuous Delivery truly relies on. Continuous Delivery (CD) isn’t magic. It’s the final step in a pipeline that must begin with a healthy CI setup and strong code review culture. Trusting CD … Continue reading πŸš€ Mastering CD Across GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, CircleCI & Bitbucket β€” Deploying Seamlessly to AWS, GCP, DigitalOcean & Heroku

Mastering CI Across GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins & CircleCI β€” Without Losing Your Sanity

May 15, 2025 CI isn’t just a nice-to-haveβ€”it’s your early warning system against code chaos. Think of it as the oracular gatekeeper of your project: it may come with some setup costs, but those are nothing compared to the cost of bugs slipping through unnoticed. With the right CI strategy, we don’t just prevent our … Continue reading Mastering CI Across GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins & CircleCI β€” Without Losing Your Sanity

🎸 Building a Multi-Tenant Rails App for Music Stores Using Apartment

May 14, 2025 A few months ago, I had to build a SaaS platform for music instrument stores. Each store needed to manage its own products, customers, and sales, but everything had to run under one codebase. I ended up going with the apartment gem to handle multi-tenancy β€” specifically, schema-based separation using PostgreSQL. It … Continue reading 🎸 Building a Multi-Tenant Rails App for Music Stores Using Apartment

πŸ”§ Managing Files on AWS S3 with Ruby Shouldn’t Be a Hassle β€” So I Built S3FileManager

May 13, 2025 As developers, we tend to take small file operations for grantedβ€”until they start piling up. Let me paint a picture: You upload a file to an S3 bucket. Then your PM asks: β€œCan we rename it?” Then a bug pops up because two versions of the file are floating around. Then you … Continue reading πŸ”§ Managing Files on AWS S3 with Ruby Shouldn’t Be a Hassle β€” So I Built S3FileManager

Getting Started with Capybara and Selenium for Web Testing

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

πŸ”’ Free SSL Certificates for Your Ruby on Rails App Using Let’s Encrypt

May 9, 2025 Security is no longer optional β€” 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 πŸ”’ Free SSL Certificates for Your Ruby on Rails App Using Let’s Encrypt