This is an introductory post to Phoenix, Elixir’s web framework. It is not intended to be a complete guide, but rather a quick primer if you’re interested in Phoenix and have a background in Rails and Ruby. I’ll explore the differences and similarities using a classic blog setup example, although
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
