Connecting thoughts

“Let’s talk about” is a space where anyone in the company can pitch a topic, share it with the team, and help expand everyone’s knowledge. In this post, Agustin and Lucas share their experience with GraphQL.

Welcome to the fifth issue of “This week in #devs”, a series of posts where we share articles, thoughts, and conversations that happen in our #devs channel on Slack.

In the last post we explored tree structure implementations for Ruby on Rails. In this post, we present a new implementation using Common Table Expressions.

Tree structures are a common way of organizing hierarchical data. In this post, we’ll explore existing solutions for Ruby on Rails, their benefits, drawbacks, and when to use them.

Welcome to the third issue of “This week in #devs”, a series of posts where we share articles, thoughts, and conversations that happen in our #devs channel on Slack.

Welcome to the second issue of “This week in #devs”, a series of posts where we share articles, thoughts, and conversations that happen in our #devs channel on Slack.

Welcome to the first issue of “This week in #devs”, a series of posts where we share articles, thoughts, and conversations that happen in our #devs channel on Slack.

Over the last couple of months, I’ve been investing a lot of time in improving my testing skills. I spent most of this time in going back to the basics, trying to start from scratch with every little concept one takes for granted. Trying to see everything through a child’s eyes. And today I’m rediscovering fixtures.

This sentence is wrong but funny. Minitest has always been great. In our last post, a situation made me think if I should be critical about how I test (and testing in general) and if I should do something about it. This is what happened next.

I’ve used RSpec for years, and until recently I had to work with a colleague that never really tested before. This process made me think if I should be critical about how I test and if I should (or shouldn’t) do something about it.

Delayed Job doesn’t have a mechanism for defining unique jobs. Enqueing a time-consuming or resource-intensive job multiple times could be harmful if not treated accordingly. Introducing Delayed::UniqueJob, a Ruby gem for defining unique jobs in Delayed Job.

I have been fascinated by Deno’s remote import since I discovered it. Experiment with me on how to make a remote require for Ruby based on Deno’s remote import.

In Flutter, dialogs don’t automatically share the context with the parent widget. We found out while implementing providers. Learn how to solve the problem.

We’ve been working with a boat marketplace for a year now. One of the most interesting challenges we faced during this time was reimplementing their broken search engine. This is how we did it.

Even though our primary focus is Ruby on Rails, we’re developing one Flutter application. In this project, we implemented a Skeleton Screen to enhance the app’s professional appearance during data loading. What is a Skeleton Screen and how did we implement one?

Ruby on Rails remains a great framework for developing web applications. Thanks to its maturity and philosophy, one can build MVPs in a fast, efficient, and scalable way. Discover why Rails continues to be a great and influential framework to this day.

Moving your functions from a component to a separate file can improve readability and organization, but what happens when the data you need is outside the scope? In this article I will show you how I solved this problem with function currying.

APIs allow us to communicate with third-party software in order to use their services and data. In today’s software, it’s almost impossible not needing to use one, one way or another. What if they are hostile?

We’ve been using the audited gem for a couple of projects, but the lack of a built-in view to display the changes challenged us to write our engine. We are happy to introduce audited-ui.

Psittacism signifies repetitive speech in the manner of a parrot. Can APIs suffer from it and what are their consequences?

Strong Parameters are typically used in Ruby on Rails for mass assignments, but in this article, we explore an additional use for this feature.

Service objects is a Ruby on Rails pattern widely used. In this post, I’ll show you one example I stumbled upon recently. What’s wrong with it and how did we fix it?

Nowadays, technology is evolving at an unprecedented rate, presenting us with new challenges and opportunities. One challenge is adapting to new architectures, and in this post, we will explore how we did QA Automation on a serverless architecture.

I’ve been working on docker exclusively since 2018. Besides its many benefits, it could be tiresome to type longer commands every single time. How do I do it without losing my mind?

Overcomplicated props, ingrowing learning curves, and eventual technical debts are symptoms that appear as new requirements emerge on a project. Design Systems evolve outgrowing our components, leading toward their end. How can we ensure that our components thrive against the design challenges we encounter daily?

Last week we published the case study of one of our first projects. After 10 years in the archive, I found and brought this old Ruby on Rails 4.0 application back to life.

What is it and how to achieve it with Rails and Postgres? Learn how we successfully implemented this flexible and scalable architecture in a real-world project.

Build a custom React slider panel with Tailwind CSS. This post guides you through creating a flexible, component ideal for menus, navigation, or forms.

Ruby on Rails is our main tool for building MVPs and big web applications. People say it’s old, dead, slow, that it’s not relevant anymore. Wrong! Here’s why.

Do you have a Ruby or Rails application in production for more than 4 or 5 years? Has the test suite crumbled to pieces because of too many broken or flaky tests that no one has time to fix? Do you feel your app needs a lot of love that no budget will ever be able to sustain? Read on to know what we do in these cases.

Learn our approach to upgrading Ruby on Rails applications. Discover why staying current with the latest framework versions is crucial for security, performance, and future maintainability.

Our approach to building modern React frontends within a Ruby on Rails monolith makes use of the best of both worlds.

In this episode of our Docker in development series, discover various alternatives and tips to optimize your Docker images, reducing their size and improving efficiency.

In this episode of our Docker in development series, learn how to perform everyday tasks within your Docker containers, including running rake tasks and managing databases.

In this episode of our Docker in development series, we’ll guide you through the process of dockerizing a Ruby on Rails application step-by-step.

Explore the benefits of Docker for development, with practical tips for Ruby on Rails and React projects. Learn how it streamlines setup and ensures consistent environments.