During the last years Rails developers have been looking for ways to move from monolithic to component-based applications. One of these is the use of Rails Engines. The basic idea is to move away from the default MVC Rails architecture where “fat Models” end up being morbid obese. If you are interested to know more …
Ruby
valid , valid? , valid!
In this article, you’ll learn some interesting Ruby validation techniques. We’ll drive you trhough input and output validation inside ruby applications, the good and bads and some possible solutions. You are probably already familiar with the different validation layers present in Rails (or other ruby frameworks). Viewing them from the request point of view we …
Reinvent collaboration… with ruby
Since the beginning of time, whenever a group of people work together, collaboration has been always something to improve. There is a bunch of collaboration software ready for helping you to do so, but what if you want to perform a specific idea you have? What if you want to improve your regular workflow a …
Dry with Ruby metaprogramming
You’ve probably already heard of Ruby’s metaprogramming capabilities but you may either think it is only suitable for building frameworks and DSLs or you don’t know when to make use of it. Here we’ll show you how little doses of metaprogramming can help to dry up your Rails app. It’s definitely a tool to keep …