Keep Your Ruby Projects Secure and Up-to-Date with Dependabot

Keep Your Ruby Projects Secure and Up-to-Date with Dependabot June 25, 2025 As developers, managing project dependencies can sometimes feel overwhelming — especially when it comes to ensuring they’re secure and up-to-date. Outdated or vulnerable dependencies can introduce serious risks to your applications. This is where Dependabot shines. Dependabot is a powerful, automated tool integrated … Continue reading Keep Your Ruby Projects Secure and Up-to-Date with Dependabot →

🧱 Behind the Scenes of a Rails App: Understanding Middleware

June 18, 2025 Have you ever wondered what happens to an HTTP request before it hits your Rails controller? 🤔 Let me introduce you to a powerful but often overlooked part of Ruby on Rails: middleware. What is Middleware? Request ↓ [Middleware 1] ↓ [Middleware 2] ↓ [Rails Router / Controller / App] ↓ [Middleware … Continue reading 🧱 Behind the Scenes of a Rails App: Understanding Middleware →

📘 Designing RESTful APIs with Ruby on Rails: Conventions and Practical Implementation

June 17, 2025 In modern software engineering, APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) serve as essential components for scalable, modular applications. A well-structured API facilitates communication between systems, enhances developer experience, and supports long-term maintainability. This article explores widely accepted API conventions and illustrates how to implement them in Ruby on Rails, with a particular focus on … Continue reading 📘 Designing RESTful APIs with Ruby on Rails: Conventions and Practical Implementation →

🔍 Understanding Ruby’s Method Lookup Algorithm: A Must for Every Developer

Understanding Ruby’s Method Lookup Algorithm: A Must for Every Developer June 12, 2025 If you’ve spent some time working with Ruby, you’ve probably run into situations where a method is being called... but you’re not quite sure where it’s defined. Is it in the class itself? A superclass? An included module? Behind this magic is … Continue reading 🔍 Understanding Ruby’s Method Lookup Algorithm: A Must for Every Developer →

Understanding config/database.yml in Ruby on Rails

Understanding config/database.yml in Ruby on Rails June 11, 2025 The config/database.yml file is a core part of any Ruby on Rails application. It defines how Rails connects to the database in various environments (development, test, production), and it's often the first touchpoint when configuring an application's data layer. Let's explore how this configuration file works, … Continue reading Understanding config/database.yml in Ruby on Rails →

🌅 Building a Ruby on Rails API with Swagger Documentation: A Practical Guide

Building a Ruby on Rails API with Swagger Documentation: A Practical Guide June 10, 2025 As developers, we often find ourselves building APIs that need to be consumed by mobile apps, front-end frameworks, or third-party services. A well-structured, documented, and maintainable API is essential for seamless integration and long-term scalability. In this article, I’ll walk … Continue reading 🌅 Building a Ruby on Rails API with Swagger Documentation: A Practical Guide →

Supercharging Ruby with Embedded TypedData Objects

June 7, 2025 Ruby continues to evolve, balancing its expressive elegance with a growing focus on performance. One of the latest improvements introduced in Ruby 3.3 is embedded TypedData objects, a low-level optimization with impressive results. This advancement, developed by Peter Zhu and Jean Boussier, is already paying dividends in core Ruby operations—and soon, third-party … Continue reading Supercharging Ruby with Embedded TypedData Objects →

Simulating External APIs in RSpec: A Clean Approach Using WebMock

June 6, 2025 Abstract When testing systems that depend on external services, such as geolocation APIs, simulating HTTP responses becomes essential for building deterministic and isolated test suites. This article explores a disciplined approach to mocking HTTP calls in RSpec using WebMock—without relying on custom helpers or implicit abstractions. Instead, we emphasize clean code principles: … Continue reading Simulating External APIs in RSpec: A Clean Approach Using WebMock →

Understanding Data Structures and Method Operations: A Key to Efficient Software Development

June 4, 2025 In the realm of software engineering, data structures form the fundamental backbone upon which efficient and scalable applications are built. Equally important are the methods — or algorithms — that operate on these data structures, enabling us to manipulate, access, and transform data effectively. The Importance of Data Structures Data structures are … Continue reading Understanding Data Structures and Method Operations: A Key to Efficient Software Development →

Automating Document Generation with AI in Ruby on Rails

June 3, 2025 In modern software projects, automating routine tasks is crucial to speed up delivery and reduce human error. One great example is document generation—whether it's product requirement documents (PRDs), proposals, or presentations. Recently, I worked on a system that uses AI to generate structured content from conversations, then outputs documents in multiple formats … Continue reading Automating Document Generation with AI in Ruby on Rails →