Posts about Ruby Rails
Working With Legacy Code — How Refactoring Let Us Escape The Black Hole
I’m pretty much sure that sooner or later every developer finds themselves working on a project that makes them face the issue of legacy code. For those lucky dogs who still haven’t experienced it firsthand—legacy code...
How to Use Repository Pattern with Active Record— Ruby on Rails Development
Remember the story of tech leading a project in fours acts? It was a motivational (hopefully!) story about delivering a project and my experience with being a tech lead. It was focused around repositories helping us...
Working with Legacy Code: Cooleaf Refactor Case Study
It happens in the lifecycle of every product—some dead or duplicated code is slowing the project down, the team working on that particular product has changed, the technology and practices used have become outdated or...
Actionable Tips to Improve Web Performance with Rails
Recently, I had a pleasure of attending the Wroclove.rb conference in Wrocław where one talk in particular caught my attention more than others. And not just because Ruby on Rails is my mother tongue. “Web Performance...
Why Is Choosing Good Solutions for Projects So Hard in Rails?
For a long time, I’ve been hearing a lot of criticism about the Rails way and some months ago my private experiences convinced me that I cannot find any use cases for that approach. It has developers build very fat...
Rails Aren’t Bad. Active Record Is.
Is there anyone out there in the Ruby community who doesn’t know Active Record? I don’t think so. Many of us start our adventure with Rails by writing AR models. And we write them a lot. We detect the N+1 issue many...
How To Index Array of Objects in Elasticsearch
Recently, I’ve been playing around with a search in Elasticsearch and got stuck with development when attempting to work with an array of objects. Indexing went fine, the query results, however, did not look as expected.
What Did I Learn After Going Eighteen Months Without Rails
A couple of months back, I finished my first major project with Ruby but sans Rails. You probably don’t know that, but I’m one of these people who first try to master a framework and only then look at the language...
How To Implement White Label And Custom Features
If you've ever been working on an application with a domain concept like organizations I bet you had to struggle with custom features, behaviors and complete white labels. Most young fellows start such with the if-else...
Monterail Ranked as #1 Ruby on Rails Company in The World by Clutch
Some time ago we mentioned on our blog that according to Clutch, Monterail was ranked as a market leader in Polish development companies, Ruby on Rails developers, and software companies in general. With more...
Monterail Ranked as a Leader Among Ruby on Rails Developers and Polish Development Firms
In February, Clutch - a Washington-based business analytics company, released 2017 edition of updated research of top development companies. We’re very excited to announce, that Monterail, competing with 100+ companies,...
Decoupling models and workflow
Introduction If you've ever found yourself adding another boolean flag to mark your object's state, chances are you would greatly benefit from introducing the workflow or aasm gems. Those two are best-known and most...
Rails is still cool but...
A recent confession by Piotr Solnica started another bit of drama in the Ruby world. I started writing this post just after reading Fabio Akita's response to Piotr's post - for me it shows all the problems with Rails'...
Hanami with OAuth
At Monterail we like to try new stuff. We try new languages and new (maybe not so new) frameworks. Hanami (formerly Lotus) is a Ruby web framework created by Luca Guidi and community.
Rspec query limit matcher
Have you ever wondered how many simultaneous queries your application sends to the database? A hundred, a thousand, or perhaps a million? Whatever your answer, we should be aware of the influence that this number has on...
Deployment setup for JRuby Rails app with Puma, Mina and Moni
Recently, I had my first real experience with deploying a (small) web application. I had to perform a pretty wide research and torture some experienced people with handling the difficulties. I gained knowledge that I...
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