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Fun with Rails Enums and PORO

Fun with Rails Enums and PORO I really like enums. They can be really powerful if they are used wisely. Let’s see what we can do with them in a multilingual Rails app with a little help from PORO (Plain Old Ruby Object).In this article, I will quickly explain the basics and in...

Using Dynamic Config Variables in Ruby on Rails Apps

Using Dynamic Config Variables in Ruby on Rails Apps Config variables should never be embedded directly in the codebase. It is a common practice to extract them into a separate configuration layer. A standard approach for Ruby on Rails apps is to use static ENV variables that can only be changed via...

Migrating Selenium system tests to Cuprite

Migrating Selenium system tests to Cuprite In our project, we’ve been running system tests (then called rather "Feature tests") since around 2016. System tests use a real browser in the background and test all layers of a Rails application at once: from the database all the way up to the n...

How to Verify Paddle.com Webhooks / Alerts in Ruby on Rails

How to Verify Paddle.com Webhooks / Alerts in Ruby on Rails When we first launched OhMySMTP we chose Paddle as our Payments Provider, primarily because they handle all sales taxes and payment infrastructure globally. One of the things that took longer than it should have was ensuring that alerts (webhooks)...

A Compositional Approach to Optimizing the Performance of Ruby Apps

A Compositional Approach to Optimizing the Performance of Ruby Apps Ruby has long been derided as a slow programming language. While this accusation has some element of truth to it, successive Ruby versions, released yearly, have made great strides in improving Ruby’s performance characteristics.In addition to all...

Verify Webhooks in Ruby on Rails with Public Private Key Crytography

Verify Webhooks in Ruby on Rails with Public Private Key Crytography When we first launched OhMySMTP we chose Paddle as our Payments Provider, primarily because they handle all sales taxes and payment infrastructure globally. One of the things that took longer than it should have was ensuring that alerts (webhooks)...

Creating a VOD (Video On Demand) Platform with Rails

Creating a VOD (Video On Demand) Platform with Rails Recently, I started working on a project where I wanted to allow users to upload videos, then allow them and other users to playback those videos. I was able to find numerous tutorials showing how to make Youtube clones in rails, but nearly every ...

Deploy Rails 7 with Docker and Nginx

Deploy Rails 7 with Docker and Nginx The easiest solution to deploy a Rails application is something like Heroku or Hatchbox or DigitalOcean Apps. But for some small projects I like to use my existing VPS.I assume you have a VPS with Ubuntu 20.04 and Docker and Nginx installed.If you...

Exploring Ruby's `clamp` and `minmax` methods

Exploring Ruby's `clamp` and `minmax` methods I came across an interesting problem recently where I was given a value and an array of “buckets” and I basically needed to return which bucket the value was closest to.This made me extremely excited at the prospect of having a practical use case ...

Stamping Out Overflow Checks in Ruby

Stamping Out Overflow Checks in Ruby Someone on Reddit asked if it was possible to turn off overflow checking on integer arithmetic in Ruby. They said that they could guarantee that their arithmetic would not overflow, and therefore they’d like to not pay the cost for a pointless check.

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