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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 — specifically, schema-based separation using PostgreSQL. It … Continue reading 🎸 Building a Multi-Tenant Rails App for Music Stores Using Apartment
May 13, 2025 As developers, we tend to take small file operations for granted—until they start piling up. Let me paint a picture: You upload a file to an S3 bucket. Then your PM asks: “Can we rename it?” Then a bug pops up because two versions of the file are floating around. Then you … Continue reading 🔧 Managing Files on AWS S3 with Ruby Shouldn’t Be a Hassle — So I Built S3FileManager
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
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
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
Exploring Ruby’s Standard Library Gems: Hidden Power at Your Fingertips April 28, 2025 When we think about Ruby, we often think about its elegance, its "developer happiness" philosophy, and popular gems like Rails, Sidekiq, or Devise. But beyond the well-known ecosystem, Ruby itself ships with a treasure trove of powerful tools — the Standard Library … Continue reading Exploring Ruby’s Standard Library Gems: Hidden Power at Your Fingertips
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