Over the past couple of years, we wrote extensively about Ruby (and Ruby on Rails), so you know we like it a lot. We’ve also dabbled some in Elixir (and Phoenix), but never before have we compared the two side by side...

Every year, we’re pelted by articles proclaiming the death of this gem of a framework. And while Ruby on Rails (RoR) is almost 15 years old, it’s nowhere close to passing on from the world of programming. 

To build a Web application that effortlessly serves your target audience, you have to make sure your chosen technology stack has the necessary capabilities.

So there you are: a backend developer with a few years’ experience in developing Ruby on Rails applications. Lucky for you, Ruby on Rails seems to be versatile enough to solve pretty much any problem you encountered...

I’m pretty much sure that sooner or later every developer finds themselves working on a project that makes them face the need to refactor legacy code. For those lucky ones who didn't experience it firsthand—legacy code...

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...

It happens in the lifecycle of every product—some dead or duplicated legacy code is slowing the project down, the team working on that particular product has changed, the technology and practices used have become...

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...

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...

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...

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.

A couple of months back, I finished my first major project with Ruby but off Rails. You probably don’t know that, but I’m one of these people who first tries to master a framework and only then looks at the...

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...

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...

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,...

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...