Tag: Rails

What Rails Actually Wants: Tidying Controllers and Views Without Service Object Explosion

February 20, 2026 Lessons from RailsTokyo 2026 on using ActiveRecord as a relational engine—not just an ORM Modern Rails teams often inherit a paradox: controllers must be “thin,” views must be “dumb,” models must be “fat,” and yet production apps accumulate service objects, query objects, presenters, decorators, serializers, policies, and helpers until the architecture resembles … Continue reading What Rails Actually Wants: Tidying Controllers and Views Without Service Object Explosion →

Stop Checking admin?: Designing Authorization That Won’t Become Technical Debt (Kaigi on Rails 2025)

February 17, 2026 Modern Rails applications rarely fail because of authentication — they fail because of authorization complexity. As products grow, roles multiply, exceptions accumulate, and permission checks scatter across controllers, models, views, and frontend code. What begins as a simple current_user.admin? quickly becomes an unmaintainable web of implicit rules. At Kaigi on Rails 2025, … Continue reading Stop Checking admin?: Designing Authorization That Won’t Become Technical Debt (Kaigi on Rails 2025) →

🧰 Ruby Gems With Powerful Generators You Should Be Using in Your Rails Projects

December 9, 2025 A curated list of tools that accelerate development and keep your codebase clean One of the most underrated strengths of Ruby on Rails is its generator ecosystem. Beyond the native Rails generators, many gems ship with their own commands to scaffold authentication, background jobs, pagination, translations, slugs, geolocation, and much more. These … Continue reading 🧰 Ruby Gems With Powerful Generators You Should Be Using in Your Rails Projects →

🔐 Building Token-Based Authentication in a Rails API with JWT

May 19, 2025 A Practical and Maintainable Approach to Securing Your Endpoints by Giménez Silva Germán 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 🔐 Building Token-Based Authentication in a Rails API with JWT →

Dejando Gedit como TextMate

Personalmente creo que todo software libre tiene ventajas sobre el software propietarios, justamente por eso. Por que es Libre. Algunas veces las caracteristicas técnicas o de usabilidad o de fácilidad hacen que algún software proietario "el caso de TextMate" sea preferido por algunos ususarios. Yo siempre prefiero el sofware libre, pero en este caso éxiste … Continue reading Dejando Gedit como TextMate →