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Mastering Rails Enums: From Basics to Pro
Jul 3, 2025

Mastering Rails Enums: From Basics to Pro

Rails enums are a powerful way to map symbolic values to integers in your database, offering readability in code and performance at scale. In this post, we’ll explore what enums are, how they work und...

Ruby on Rails
Leveraging Rails Counter Cache for Efficient Data Management
Apr 30, 2024

Leveraging Rails Counter Cache for Efficient Data Management

In web applications, efficiently managing database queries is crucial for maintaining fast response times and a smooth user experience. With its robust conventions and built-in tools, Rails offers a p...

Ruby on Rails
A Deep Dive into append_view_path and prepend_view_path in Ruby on Rails
Sep 6, 2023

A Deep Dive into append_view_path and prepend_view_path in Ruby on Rails

In the Rails ecosystem, view resolution plays a significant role in how the framework identifies and renders templates. In larger applications, especially those involving plugins or engines, managing ...

Ruby on Rails
Capybara: Debugging Your Specs with save_and_open_screenshot Method
Apr 18, 2023

Capybara: Debugging Your Specs with save_and_open_screenshot Method

Capybara is a popular testing tool for writing and executing acceptance tests for web applications. It's often used in conjunction with RSpec, a testing framework for Ruby, to write integration tests ...

Rspec
Git for Beginners: 8 Tips to Get You Started with Version Control
Mar 29, 2023

Git for Beginners: 8 Tips to Get You Started with Version Control

Git is a powerful tool for managing code projects. It allows developers to collaborate on code changes, revert changes, and track progress over time. However, for beginners, Git can be overwhelming. H...

Git
Demystifying Ruby on Rails Routes for Beginners
Mar 21, 2023

Demystifying Ruby on Rails Routes for Beginners

Routes in Rails determine how URLs are mapped to specific controller actions. When a user sends a request to your application, the routing system will parse the URL and match it to a controller action...

Ruby on Rails
Using the skip_before Method in RSpec
Feb 13, 2023

Using the skip_before Method in RSpec

The `skip_before` method in RSpec is a useful tool for selectively skipping certain before blocks in your test suite. These before blocks are run before each example in a test suite, and they can be u...

Rspec
The Key Differences Between let and let! in RSpec
Feb 2, 2023

The Key Differences Between let and let! in RSpec

In the Ruby testing framework RSpec, the `let` and `let!` methods are used to define a variable or method that can be used within an example or group of examples. Both let and `let!` are memoized, mea...

Rspec
My Ruby on Rails development environment
May 2, 2022

My Ruby on Rails development environment

There are plenty of options now to create your personal development environment, this is the one that works for me. I've been using it for a couple of years now and I'm really happy with it so, I thou...

Ruby on Rails
Ruby on Rails HTTP Status codes
Feb 1, 2022

Ruby on Rails HTTP Status codes

When working on a rails application (or specially on an api) it's not uncommon to have to handle different http status codes.

Ruby on Rails
Goodbye Jekyll, hello eleventy
Oct 15, 2021

Goodbye Jekyll, hello eleventy

For a long time, I used to have my website running Github pages, being created by jekyll. And it was working fine. The only drawback was that I wanted to start a blog and in order to write a new post,...

Eleventy