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

How to Improve Maintainability in Rails Applications Using Patterns

By Ignacio Perez • November 19, 2020 • 1 Comment

Introduction Software is constantly evolving, both in specification and implementation. Keeping an extensible and maintainable codebase is, therefore, crucial to deal with these changes quickly and easily. Ruby on Rails comes with a lot of good techniques and patterns out of the box that facilitates this. Nevertheless, some of these

Link Tracking with StimulusReflex

By Bruno Vezoli • October 27, 2020 • 0 Comments

This is the first of a series about StimulusReflex, a new tool to help you bring Rails to the era of the backend-side-managed frontends. I was surprised to see that Phoenix LiveView and following with things like Motion and Sockpuppet use WebSockets to push updates from the server to the client and update the DOM accordingly.

How to Improve Ruby on Rails Apps Searches with Elasticsearch

By Leandro Dominguez • August 17, 2020 • 0 Comments

Introduction When it comes to apps with a lot of data, some SQL queries take more time than expected, especially when we want to search text through several model attributes. This most commonly happens with e-commerce stores, but these kinds of complex queries can happen in social media apps or

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

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

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

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