Posts about Ruby on Rails

Configuring your Rails application can be tricky. How do you define secrets? How do you set different values for your local development and for production?...

Rails Ruby Environment Variables

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Advanced Forms (No JavaScript!)

When working with complex forms, it’s really easy to immediately start adding JavaScript to implement non-common behaviors. But there are some hidden gems in the...

Rails Forms Html Forms

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Send emails that thread in Rails

Francois Buys

Email threads are great for improving the user experience of your app. In this post we will learn how the RFC 5322 specification expects us...

Rails Emails Tutorial

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Audit Tool is now Open Source

Audit opens a new window is a Rails application that allows users to check for vulnerabilities in their Gemfiles in an efficient and secure manner.

The tool has...

Open Source Audit Ruby Rails

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Webpack ALL The Assets!!

With the release of Rails 6, Webpack opens a new window was introduced as the default JavaScript bundler by using the Webpacker gem opens a new window . We tend to think...

Learning Webpacker Assets

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Behind The Scenes: Rails UJS

Rails UJS opens a new window (Unobtrusive JavaScript) is the JavaScript library that helps Rails do its magic when we use options like remote: true for...

Learning Javascript Rails

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Building with Hotwire

Previously, I outlined the new hotness that is Hotwire. New features are nice, but what can you build with it? Let’s build a little project,...

Rails Hotwire Demo

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Nested Forms in Rails

Have you ever had to deal with complex forms creating multiple objects and hierarchies in one request? Rails is there to help provide a set...

Learning Rails Nested Forms

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Introducing Hotwire

One of the most visible and controversial opens a new window new developments with the release of Rails 6.0 is Hotwire opens a new window . Like anything in web development, the...

Rails Hotwire Streaming

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Behind The Scenes: Devise

Devise opens a new window is a well known solution for authentication in Rails applications. It’s full featured (it not only adds authentication but also password recovery, email...

Learning Devise Ruby

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Webpack VS Sprockets

Since the release of Rails 6, Webpack is the default JavaScript bundler for new Rails apps. We all struggled at first coming from a Sprockets...

Learning Webpack Sprockets

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Understanding Bundler - To `bundle exec` or not? that is the question

We, Ruby developers, are used to running scripts or commands with the prefix bundle exec, but sometimes it’s not needed, but sometimes it...

Ruby Learning Bundler

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Exploring Method Arguments in Ruby: Part 3

In the first opens a new window and second opens a new window parts of this series we talked...

Ruby Learning Methods

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Exploring Method Arguments in Ruby: Part 2

In the first part of this series opens a new window we talked about positional arguments,...

Ruby Learning Methods

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Exploring Method Arguments in Ruby: Part 1

Ruby is an object oriented language where everything is an object (even methods are objects of the class Method opens a new window !), so everything we need to...

Ruby Learning Methods

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Creating a Legacy Rails Container

Here at OmbuLabs, we do a lot of work with older versions of Ruby and Rails. Recently, I’ve been taking a look at Docker opens a new window ,...

Devops Docker Tutorials

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Blogcop: A GitHub app that helps you manage your Jekyll blog

At OmbuLabs opens a new window we use Jekyll opens a new window to generate our blog opens a new window . If you are not familiar with it, here is a quick description from...

Github Jekyll Ruby

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Implementing Stripe Connect in Rails: Part 2

Some time ago we wrote an article opens a new window to explain how to implement Stripe Connect opens a new window in a Rails opens a new window application. That article covered mainly...

Rails Stripe Stripe Connect

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Service Objects: beyond fat models and skinny controllers

Cleiviane Costa

Service Objects are a controversial idea for several different reasons: some developers like to use them, others like to use similar patterns, and some think...

Rails Service Objects Ruby

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How to Integrate Bitrix24 with your Rails app: Part 1

In a recent project for OmbuLabs opens a new window , we had to integrate Bitrix24 opens a new window (the tool that the client was using to administrate their business) with...

Rails Bitrix Integration

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Code Conventions and Rubocop

Everyone has had the experience of working on a gnarly, difficult to understand code-base. The sort of code base that makes you hate your job....

Ruby Best Practices Rubocop

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Rails Girls: Growing as a Community

In a previous article opens a new window we talked about one of the Rails Girls opens a new window events that we sponsored and co-organized in 2018. Fast forward one...

Learning Rails Rails Girls

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Processing a CSV file in batch with Sidekiq

Cleiviane Costa

Sidekiq Pro opens a new window comes with a great feature to process a collection of jobs as a batch, allowing them to be monitored as a group...

Sidekiq Background Process Batch Processing

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Quick and easy admin options

One of the first complications that most webapps of any complexity will run into is the need for privileged users who can do things that...

Security Gems Rails

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Three Useful Data Migration Patterns for Rails

At OmbuLabs opens a new window , we are big fans of Ruby on Rails opens a new window and design patterns opens a new window , especially convention over configuration opens a new window ! The beauty of Rails...

Rails Data Migrations Design Patterns

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Consuming SendGrid and Twilio webhooks in Rails

If you’re looking for services that handle the delivery of your emails and SMSs in your app, SendGrid opens a new window and Twilio opens a new window are some of...

Rails Webhooks Sendgrid Twilio

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Notes from The Complete Guide to Rails Performance's Workshop

If you are interested in Ruby and Rails performance, you have definitely read articles by Nate Berkopec opens a new window from Speedshop opens a new window . At Ombu Labs we...

Rails Performance Best Practices

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Step up the security of your Rails app | Part 1

The internet is a wonderful place, but there will always be people that don’t have good intentions when they visit our websites. That’s why you...

Rails Security Command Injection Sql Injection

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OmbuCast Episode 1 - Performance improvements using derailed_benchmarks

Transcript:

Hello and welcome to the first OmbuCast by OmbuLabs. In this screencast we’ll be taking a look at...

Rails Performance Benchmark

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Announcing AfipBill

If you live in Argentina and you ever use AFIP, you should already know that their platform is not the best in terms of user...

Open Source Ruby Rubygems

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How to use any gem in the Rails production console

How many times did you come across a great gem you wanted to try out in a production console, like benchmark-ips opens a new window or awesome-print opens a new window ?

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Rails Ruby Gem

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Present? vs Any? vs Exists?

When working on a Rails project, you may have seen present? calls on ActiveRecord relationships. This might feel natural, mostly because <code class="language-plaintext...

Benchmark Performance Rails

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Brief look at RSpec's formatting options

A few weeks ago, I noticed weird output in the RSpec opens a new window test suite (~4000 tests) for a Rails opens a new window application:

<pre...

Rspec Ruby Rails

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Spy vs Double vs Instance Double

When writing tests for services, you may sometimes want to use mock objects instead of real objects. In case you’re using ActiveRecord and real objects,...

Rspec Ruby Spy Double Instance Double

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A comprehensive guide to interacting with IMAP using Ruby

A few times in the past I’ve had to interact with IMAP via Ruby, and wrapping your head around its API is not so easy....

Ruby Imap Email

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DRY your tests

I’m a big fan of having small classes. I’m not a big fan of having huge specs for a small class/object. Every time I see...

Rails Dry Testing

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Use session variables to optimize your user flow

Sirko Sittig

Sessions provide you a nice little data storage feature where the application does not need to get the information directly from the database. So you...

Ruby Rails Sessions

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Hunting Down a Slow Rails Request

Recently, we started using Skylight opens a new window in production for one of our clients’ Rails applications, in an attempt to try to improve the performance of...

Rails Performance Skylight

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10 Steps to Evaluate a Rails Project

It will come a time when you will have to decide whether to maintain a Rails opens a new window project or not.

If you want to seriously...

Rails Maintenance Evaluate

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Let vs Instance Variables

Sirko Sittig

Maybe in the past you stumbled over the two different approaches to setup your test variables. One way is the more programmatical approach by using...

Rails Rspec Ruby

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Adding Csrf-Protection to your Rails-Backbone App

Sirko Sittig

When integrating Backbone.js opens a new window in your Rails opens a new window App, you might face the problem of the inability to verify the CSRF-Token.

The CSRF Protection secures...

Rails Backbone Security

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Why using default_scope is a bad idea

default_scope is a method provided by ActiveRecord, which allows you to set a default scope (as its name implies) for all operations done...

Ruby Rails Best Practices

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Enumerable#grep vs Enumerable#select