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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
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
April 25, 2025 I recently built a small Ruby on Rails app with a simple but insightful purpose: 👉 Display all the HTTP headers your browser sends when visiting a page. It’s a straightforward project, but it helped me explore how HTTP headers work and provided a neat way to learn more about browser requests … Continue reading 🛠️ Building a Simple Rails App to Display HTTP Request Headers
April 24, 2025 In a world overflowing with data, compression isn't just a matter of saving space—it’s about efficiency, speed, and clean design. That’s where lossless data compression stands out: perfect reconstruction of original data, with zero information loss. Recently, I explored a classic algorithm—Run-Length Encoding (RLE)—and implemented it in pure Ruby. It’s a great … Continue reading ✨ The Art of Lossless Data Compression in Ruby
On January 13th, 2025, I started writing and sharing regularly here and on my blog. What began as a way to organize my thoughts and give back to the dev community has turned into something much more fulfilling. The feedback I’ve received since then has been incredible—encouragement, insightful comments, and even a few “this helped … Continue reading 💬 Grateful for the Feedback!
April 23, 2025 When it comes to memory management in Ruby applications, especially those that run for long periods or handle large volumes of data, efficient allocation is key. One powerful tool to help improve memory handling is the jemalloc memory allocator. Even better, the Ruby gem jemalloc-rb makes integrating this allocator into your Ruby … Continue reading Optimizing Ruby Memory Usage with jemalloc-rb
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