Juan Francisco Ferrari

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Is a fan of video games, movies, and comics -- a classic nerd. He is currently developing in Ruby on Rails

Form object patterns in Rails: Stop creating services for everything with YAAF

By Juan Francisco Ferrari • December 11, 2020 • 0 Comments

Working with large controllers How many times have you encountered large controller methods? If you are lucky like me, probably many times. One of the most common practices to start refactoring a long controller is to move the code to a service. Services are great, and if we code them in an

The 8 Best Visual Studio Code Extensions for Programming Ruby

By Juan Francisco Ferrari • August 5, 2020 • 0 Comments

Choosing a Text Editor It may be a tough decision, as a programmer, to choose a text editor, since it will be your main tool to do your work, and you will use it every day in your work-life. Everybody has their favorite text editor, I have known people who

How to customize the display name of dynamic ActiveAdmin search filters

By Juan Francisco Ferrari • July 1, 2020 • 3 Comments

Working with ActiveAdmin At Rootstrap, my first assignment was to develop a Ruby on Rails application which uses ActiveAdmin (with ActiveAdmin Addons) as a framework to implement the user interface. I had never used ActiveAdmin before and I found myself reading a lot of documentation of the gem, in some