ActiveRecord is a very powerful tool. It goes a long way allowing you to organize your database access and build queries in the Ruby way. However, in some scenarios we end up having to write SQL ...

In this episode I’m gonna show you a gem that I find quite useful to clean up controllers and not many developers know about. It’s the has_scope gem. To illustrate its purpose, I have here a sim...

In architectures based on microservices, message queues like RabbitMQ are a common thing for communication. Even though exchanging messages is an elegant solution, you’re not free from eventually r...

If you have worked with Heroku, you probably have heard of 12-factor. You probably have added the rails_12factor gem to your projects. But are you aware of what the heck is that? I heard about 12-...

A few weeks ago I came across an issue while dealing with associations I had to eager load. The product I’m working on supports custom templates using liquid. That means our customers can customi...