🔐 Securing Your Ruby Apps with bundler-audit

June 10, 2025 In today’s world of frequent security breaches, keeping your Ruby application’s dependencies secure is non-negotiable. That’s where bundler-audit steps in—a powerful command-line tool that scans your Gemfile.lock for known vulnerabilities and insecure gem sources. 🛠 What is bundler-audit? bundler-audit checks your project for: Vulnerable versions of gems (by comparing with the ruby-advisory-db) … Continue reading 🔐 Securing Your Ruby Apps with bundler-audit →

🌅 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 →

Generating Executable API Documentation for Ruby on Rails with RSwag

June 9, 2025 A structured exposition with illustrative examples Abstract Accurate, current, and machine-readable documentation is a prerequisite for reliable consumption of web APIs. While manual Swagger (OpenAPI) definitions quickly diverge from production behaviour, RSwag bridges this gap by synthesising documentation directly from integration tests written in RSpec. This article (i) situates RSwag within the … Continue reading Generating Executable API Documentation for Ruby on Rails with RSwag →

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 →

🧼 Skinny Controllers, Fat Models – A Classic Ruby on Rails Guideline

June 5, 2025 In the world of Ruby on Rails, few principles have stood the test of time like the mantra: “Skinny Controllers, Fat Models.” While it may sound quirky, this simple phrase encapsulates a deep architectural philosophy that encourages maintainability, clarity, and clean code — the Rails way. ✅ What It Really Means The … Continue reading 🧼 Skinny Controllers, Fat Models – A Classic Ruby on Rails Guideline →

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 →

Just read Shopify’s latest update on Sorbet — they’ve added support for inline RBS comments, and it’s a game changer for type checking in Ruby! 🎯

This blends the readability of RBS with the static type safety of Sorbet — and it’s already helping improve code clarity at scale (Shopify has 99% of its 75k Ruby files type-checked 😲). Now you can write type signatures in a much cleaner, more Ruby-like way: It’s still experimental, but definitely worth keeping an eye … Continue reading Just read Shopify’s latest update on Sorbet — they’ve added support for inline RBS comments, and it’s a game changer for type checking in Ruby! 🎯 →

🚀 Ruby 3.5 Brings Serious Speed to Object Allocation 💎⚡

June 3, 2025 If you're like me and enjoy digging into Ruby performance, you’ll appreciate the latest improvements in Ruby 3.5 — especially when it comes to how fast objects get allocated. Thanks to optimizations in Class#new, Ruby 3.5 dramatically improves allocation performance for both positional and keyword arguments. And with YJIT enabled, the numbers … Continue reading 🚀 Ruby 3.5 Brings Serious Speed to Object Allocation 💎⚡ →

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 →