ActiveAdmin 2FA with OneLogin

By Federico Agripa • June 15, 2020 • 0 Comments

Here at Rootstrap, security is one of the top priorities, for us and for our clients. We ensure that malicious users can’t access any sensitive information from our client’s web apps. In this blog post, you’ll learn how to configure two factor authentication with OneLogin for your admin panel. 1) Some

Online payments made SIMPLE – How to work with Stripe

By Federico Agripa • June 8, 2020 • 0 Comments

Here at Rootstrap, we don’t believe in reinventing the wheel. We believe in making things simple and high quality of course. In this blog post, you’ll learn how to start working with Stripe and quickly have fully functioning online payments in your apps. WHY STRIPE? Pros Easy to implement and use

Rails N + 2 queries

By Bruno Vezoli • June 4, 2020 • 0 Comments

We usually try to solve performance problems by using #includes to get rid of N + 1 queries but this doesn’t always fix the issue; in fact, it can even create more queries under some circumstances. This post shows a few examples of when that happens and how to deal with it.

Gems You Want To Have In Your Rails API

By Juan Diego Rosales • June 1, 2020 • 0 Comments

Are you new to Rails? Or maybe just looking for any cool gem to use in your new API? Here is a list of gems we have on our Rails API Base that we consider a must-have in every Rails API project.

Access the world’s most powerful retail APIs with Best Buy Ruby

By Sandro Damilano • May 19, 2020 • 0 Comments

What’s Best Buy Ruby? Best Buy Ruby is a new gem developed entirely here, at Rootstrap. It’s basically a wrapper for the different Best Buy APIs. It offers a simple and intuitive interface that allows users to access the required API with as much customizations as they like. Why use it?

Introducing yaaf

By juanmanuelramallo • April 16, 2020 • 0 Comments

Yet Another Active Form | Using form objects in Rails Apps Introducing Yet Another Active Form yaaf, a gem to ease the usage of the form object pattern in rails apps. Form Object Pain Points The form object pattern is widely used across Rails apps, and yet we tend to write

How to improve maintainability in Rails applications using patterns: Part II

By Ignacio Perez • March 23, 2020 • 0 Comments

Introduction In the first part of this article we mentioned some important design principles and how they are not respected when overusing patterns and techniques that come with Ruby on Rails. In this part we will continue to investigate these and how we can mitigate the problems they cause to maintainability. Overused

Building an Engine-modularized API in Rails

By Guillermo Leopold • March 11, 2020 • 0 Comments

When big development teams build an API, one of the main challenges that we face is being able to work together on different features while avoiding bottle-necks or other common issues such as conflicting perspectives or avoid overlapping efforts on particular features. Because of this, when we started working on

Phoenix for Rails Developers – Part 2

By Bruno Vezoli • March 6, 2020 • 0 Comments

Introduction In the first part of this blog post we talked about how Rails and Phoenix compare on the web layer, if you haven’t read it go and check it out. Following on from that, we’ll see how data and the business layer are implemented on both frameworks. Migrations Let’s start

Phoenix for Rails Developers: A Practical Example – Part 1

By Bruno Vezoli • February 17, 2020 • 1 Comment

This is an introductory post to Phoenix, Elixir’s web framework. It is not intended to be a complete guide since it’s a big framework with lots of things to dive into, but rather to show a side by side comparison of how things are done in both frameworks using the