Sidekiq 7 was released towards the end of October 2022 and included a much-desired feature: being able to run the Sidekiq as part of another process (Sidekiq Embed). — This simplified deployments (especially for Heroku) since you can now deploy one large process instead of two separate ones. The old way As soon as you start using Sidekiq to process background jobs, you realise that you need a way to trigger a number of jobs recurrently (cron jobs). With the canonical way…

The map method is an incredibly powerful tool for manipulating data in Ruby. It is very useful for iterating through an array and transforming each element in the array according to the logic provided. In this article, we will explore the basics of the ‘map’ method and some of the…

Having the proper level of visibility into the day-to-day performance of a SaaS business is a must for larger companies but may feel cumbersome for smaller ones. There is one ruby gem I found particularly useful for early-stage products: blazer. In a nutshell, blazer allows you to run SQL queries…

Overview In this tutorial, we’ll be setting up Ruby on Rails 7.0 for development using macOS 13 (Ventura) which was released on October 24th, 2022. Oh My Zsh

An enum is a data type made out of a set of named values. Let’s leverage them — In Ruby on Rails, an enum is an attribute where the values map to integers in the database and can be queried by name. For example, we could define an enum for the status attribute, where the possible values are pending, active, or archived. Ruby on Rails added support for…

We’re continuing the series on building a Customer Relationship Management system with Ruby on Rails. — Contents Part 1 — Settings up Rails, ActiveAdmin and create the Clients model Part 2 (this article) Review In the last article, we went through all the steps needed to set up our development environment with Ruby and Ruby on Rails, we installed ActiveAdmin into our application and created the model and…

Which should you choose for your new project? — Ruby on Rails and Django are two of the best and most popular web development frameworks out there. How do you choose the right one for your new project in 2021? Both Ruby on Rails and Django are long-lived web development frameworks, but they are still two of the most…

This is the first of a series of tutorials on building a Customer Relationship Management application using Ruby on Rails. — Motivation Building a Customer Relationship Management system is an extremely hot topic among software engineers nowadays. With the current health environment pushing more and more businesses to consider going online, the demand for CRMs is higher than ever. While there are some prominent champions in this field (yes, of course, I’m…

Alleviate some of the anxiety of your new management role — Making the step towards management is a huge challenge. It’s also a great accomplishment. As a technical person, most of the focus during our training and start of our career go to individual work and individual performance. Becoming a technical leader can seem daunting. The solution to the hardest questions…