December 5, 2025 A Complete Guide for Ruby on Rails, React, and React Native Developers Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) is one of the most misunderstood parts of modern web development — and one of the most common sources of errors developers face when building APIs. If you’re working with Ruby on Rails, React, or React … Continue reading 🚦 Understanding CORS in Modern Web Development
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 Outdated or vulnerable dependencies can introduce serious risks to your applications.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
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
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
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
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
December 16, 2024 Managing file uploads can often feel like a cumbersome task in web development. However, with Active Storage, Ruby on Rails simplifies the entire process, offering a robust and developer-friendly way to handle file attachments. Whether you're building an application that needs to manage user avatars, document uploads, or media galleries, Active Storage … Continue reading Streamlining File Uploads with Active Storage in Ruby on Rails
November 7, 2024 If you've spent time working with Ruby, you might know that debugging or inspecting your code at runtime can sometimes feel challenging. This is where the Pry gem comes into play—a powerful, flexible, and user-friendly REPL (Read-Eval-Print Loop) that can replace the default IRB in Ruby. Pry enhances the debugging process, allowing … Continue reading Dive Into Pry: A Developer’s Best Friend for Debugging and Exploration
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