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

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.

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

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