Exception Tracking

By Tiziana Romani • July 23, 2020 • 0 Comments

If we want to write better and higher quality software, it is important we keep track of exceptions, crashes and errors happening in our environment, so we can deal with them. We, at Rootstrap, have created this OS exception tracking tool in order to ease the task of monitoring errors.

A Take on Empowering ActiveRecord

By Bruno Vezoli • July 16, 2020 • 0 Comments

I think we are quite underpowered when it comes to doing queries on Rails, having this in mind I proposed my opinion on how we could improve this and made a PR. I also wanted to share it here to know what others think and maybe get some traction. The

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

How to Accept Payments With Stripe (React, Rails Examples)

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.

Most Useful Gems for Ruby on 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 Juan Manuel Ramallo • 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 • 1 Comment

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