Overview In this tutorial, we’ll be setting up Ruby on Rails 7.0 for development using macOS 12.6 Monterey. 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…

What comes before product-market fit — I’m a senior Ruby on Rails engineer with a background in building enterprise software for SaaS companies. My co-founder is also a senior engineer with a background in building enterprise data processing pipelines. We co-founded a start-up to build an appointment management system for dental clinics and beauty salons. Building…

This is the first of a series of tutorial 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 obvious 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…

A deep dive into a favourite background-processing system — Updated February 2021 for Ruby on Rails 6.1 and Sidekiq 6.1.3 while also adding a step-by-step guide for deploying to Heroku. In September 2019, Sidekiq released version 6.x. Sidekiq comes in three flavours: the open-source version, Sidekiq Pro, and Sidekiq Enterprise. Sidekiq uses threads to handle many jobs at the…

A straightforward way to build a hybrid React/Rails web app — While there are plenty of articles online about setting up React in Rails (I recommend using webpacker and react_rails), I want to dive deeper and explore some of the great things you can do with React. Let’s get started. If you don’t have Ruby on Rails set up for development…