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

Phoenix for Rails Developers: A Practical Example

By Bruno Vezoli • November 19, 2020 • 0 Comments

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

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

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

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.

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

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 • 2 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.