Connecting thoughts

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.

This week we had to refactor a feature in one of the Ruby on Rails apps we’re maintaining. While at it, we discovered it was leaking memory, making the memory usage ramp up exponentially. With our expertise and the help of some tools, we were able to identify the root cause and fix the issue. Read on to learn more about how we approached this 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.

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.

This is one of the most frequently asked questions from people who want to build an MVP with Ruby on Rails.

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?

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?

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 Hybrid and Dynamic Database Multitenancy and how to successfully achieve it with Ruby on Rails (> 6.0) and PostgreSQL? Our experience implementing a hybrid and dynamic database multitenancy system for one of the projects we’re involved in.

There’s a lot of criticism of Ruby and Ruby on Rails. In this post, we will try and debunk four widespread myths about Ruby.

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.

When maintaining Ruby on Rails applications, it’s always recommended to run the latest versions of the framework so it receives security patches and performance boosts from newer versions. In this post, we’ll see our way of upgrading Ruby on Rails applications.

Let’s explore the concept of form objects in Ruby on Rails. What are they and what’s their architectural purpose?