🔐 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 →

🚀 Mastering CD Across GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, CircleCI & Bitbucket — Deploying Seamlessly to AWS, GCP, DigitalOcean & Heroku

May 16, 2025 📌 Don’t read this Unless you’ve read this article on mastering CI — otherwise you’ll miss the foundation of what Continuous Delivery truly relies on. Continuous Delivery (CD) isn’t magic. It’s the final step in a pipeline that must begin with a healthy CI setup and strong code review culture. Trusting CD … Continue reading 🚀 Mastering CD Across GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, CircleCI & Bitbucket — Deploying Seamlessly to AWS, GCP, DigitalOcean & Heroku →

🎸 Building a Multi-Tenant Rails App for Music Stores Using Apartment

May 14, 2025 A few months ago, I had to build a SaaS platform for music instrument stores. Each store needed to manage its own products, customers, and sales, but everything had to run under one codebase. I ended up going with the apartment gem to handle multi-tenancy — specifically, schema-based separation using PostgreSQL. It … Continue reading 🎸 Building a Multi-Tenant Rails App for Music Stores Using Apartment →

Getting Started with Capybara and Selenium for Web Testing

Getting Started with Capybara and Selenium for Web Testing May 12, 2025 In modern web development, automated testing is crucial to ensure application quality and stability. One of the most effective ways to test user interactions in a browser is with Capybara, a Ruby-based framework that provides a high-level API for simulating how users interact … Continue reading Getting Started with Capybara and Selenium for Web Testing →

Scrutinizing External APIs in React: How I Integrated Real-Time Dollar Data

Scrutinizing External APIs in React: How I Integrated Real-Time Dollar Data May 7, 2025 In today's world, building dynamic applications that provide real-time data is more important than ever. With the right approach, you can make your apps not only interactive but also insightful for users by pulling in live data from external sources. One … Continue reading Scrutinizing External APIs in React: How I Integrated Real-Time Dollar Data →

🚀 Getting Started with React and Docker: A “Hello World” for Ruby Developers

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! 😵💫⏱️

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! 😵💫⏱️ →

🛠️ Building a Simple Rails App to Display HTTP Request Headers

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 →

✨ The Art of Lossless Data Compression in Ruby

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 →

🧩 Modeling Dynamic Product Fields in Rails with the EAV Pattern

Modeling Dynamic Product Fields in Rails with the EAV Pattern April 22, 2025 In some applications, products aren’t all the same. A bottle of milk, a car, and a cow each need their own unique fields. Traditional relational databases don’t play well with highly dynamic schemas — and that’s where the Entity-Attribute-Value (EAV) pattern comes … Continue reading 🧩 Modeling Dynamic Product Fields in Rails with the EAV Pattern →