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2024
Migrating ActiveJob to Sidekiq Job: Why and How
Explore the challenges, lessons learned, and best practices in migrating from ActiveJob to Sidekiq::Job for faster and more efficient job processing in Rails...
Starting Strong: My Initial Journey with Regate by Qonto
Join me as I share my journey through the first few months at Regate by Qonto, from navigating a company acquisition to building personal and professional co...
Embarking on a new journey: joining Regate (and Qonto)
Come with me as I delve into the culture, challenges, and opportunities that come with joining the Regate’s Banking team under Qonto’s innovative umbrella.
Why I love Rails
Join me on a delightful journey through the world of Ruby on Rails, where every line of code is a story of creativity and efficiency.
Happy New Year
Wish all your dreams come true, all deploys are successful and nothing bad happen to your servers.
2023
A Celestial Secret of Ruby: The Spaceship Operator 🚀
A whimsical exploration into Ruby’s spaceship operator, how it harkens back to classic gaming, and how we can use it to compare Jedi midichlorian counts.
Rails 7.1: A Gleaming Release to Explore
An exploration of the fresh features in Rails 7.1, from ActiveRecord enhancements to the introduction of Bun for JavaScript. A release made even more special...
Uncharted Horizons: The Next Page in My Tech Nomad Tale
A tech enthusiast’s personal evolution, from local Brazilian tech events to international stages, and the beautiful journey of embracing new cultures.
Discovering ‘The Phoenix Project’
An exploration of ‘The Phoenix Project’ reveals deep insights into DevOps and the intricate dance of software development.
The Day Bartleby Visited Daddy’s Office
What happens when my daughter spots a ‘familiar face’ on my work screen? A light-hearted tale of family, code, cats, and unexpected connections.
Peeling the Layers: Diving (Even) Deeper into ‘rails new’
Unraveling the mystery of the ‘rails new’ command. Let’s explore its options and discover how to shape our Rails application from the get-go.
What Happens When You Run ‘rails new my-amazing-app’
Ever wondered what exactly happens under the hood when you type ‘rails new my-amazing-app’? This post explores the files and directories that Rails creates f...
The Joy of a Software Engineer Creating a New Rails App
Embarking on a new project as a Software Engineer is always a thrilling adventure, especially when it involves creating a new Rails application. In this arti...
Simplifying Authentication with HTTP Basic Auth in Rails
Dive into the world of Rails and learn a simplified, no-nonsense way to authenticate your app. HTTP Basic Authentication might not be the flashiest bouncer a...
FactoryBot: advanced techniques and best practices
Explore advanced techniques and best practices for using FactoryBot in your Rails applications to create efficient and maintainable test data management solu...
The Struggle of Finding an Apartment in Barcelona
Finding a new apartment in Barcelona was tough. Between the high prices, language barriers, and unfamiliar neighborhoods, it seemed like a huge challenge. Bu...
Using FactoryBot for Efficient Test Data Management
Learn how to efficiently manage test data in your Ruby on Rails application using FactoryBot.
The Fellowship of the Version Managers
Once upon a time, in a faraway land, there was a kingdom ruled by a powerful sorcerer named ASDF. The people of the kingdom trusted him to manage all the dif...
RSpec for Rails: Advanced Techniques #3 - Metadata
As software engineers we must know the importance of having efficient and maintainable tests. That’s why we use RSpec, the most popular testing framework for...
How to Install Ruby Version 3.2 using ASDF on M1 Macbook (and probably on M2, too)
Quick tip (actually a workaround) on how to install recent Ruby version using ASDF
Croissants, Chinese Food and Payments: My First Days at SeQura
From croissants for breakfast to Chinese food for lunch, my first week at SeQura was a tasty and welcoming introduction to life as a software engineer in Bar...
RSpec for Rails: Advanced Techniques #2 - Don’t Repeat Yourself
Discover the power of Shared Examples in RSpec for Rails and simplify your testing process with reusable and DRY code. Learn how to write shared examples for...
RSpec for Rails: Advanced Techniques #1 - Parallelization
Writing tests is an important part of the development process. But, as your application grows, the test suite can become slower and slower, causing frustrati...
RSpec for Rails: Testing with Efficient Specs
In this article, we delve into the world of RSpec testing in a Ruby on Rails application. By leveraging the power of RSpec, we can ensure that our applicatio...
From Brazil to Spain: My Tech Career Takes a New Turn
After 15 months of working in pajamas for a US company, I received an exciting job offer that will take me and my family from Brazil to Spain. We’ll be tradi...
RSpec for Rails: Adding the gem and starting testing
Are you tired of buggy code and unreliable tests in your Rails project? Look no further! In this article, we will show you how to add the RSpec gem to your R...
Naming variables in Rails: Tips and Tricks for Readable and Maintainable Code
Naming variables in a Ruby on Rails environment is crucial for code readability and maintainability. Using descriptive and meaningful names, sticking to conv...
Rails 7: Upgraded Features for Better Web Development
Upgrade to Rails 7 and take your web development to the next level with its new features like support for multiple databases, parallel testing and improved p...
Rails Containerization: A Practical Guide to Dockerizing Your App
Dockerize your Rails application and elevate your development, testing, and deployment process with this step-by-step guide. Experience the reliability and e...
Optimize Your Database Queries with pluck
This is a quick tip to help you improving your database queries with the pluck ActiveRecord method
Adding a model with complex associations to a RoR app
In this tutorial, we will be adding a Trip model to a Rails app. Each Trip can have one or more Destinations and is created by a User. Destination can have o...
GitHub for Beginners: Creating a Repository for Your RoR App
In this article, we’ll go over the basics of getting started with GitHub and creating a repository for a Ruby on Rails (RoR) app.
Adding Authentication to a Rails App with Devise
In this tutorial, we will be adding authentication to a Rails app using the Devise library. Devise is a popular gem that provides a full-featured and flexibl...
Quickly Populate Your Rails App with a CSV File
In this article we will learn you how to seed data to a Rails application from a CSV file. For this example we will use the Destination model from the travel...
2022
Expand Your RoR Travel CRUD App adding associations
In the previous article, we showed you how to create a simple CRUD web application for a travel domain using Ruby on Rails. In this article, we’ll take that ...
Get Started with Ruby on Rails and Create a Travel CRUD
Ruby on Rails is a fantastic web development framework that makes it easy to build web applications with powerful features. In this article, we’ll show you h...
Ruby and Rails: A Love Story
It all began in the mid-1990s, when Japanese programmer Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto set out to create a new programming language. He wanted a language that bal...
The Basics of Recursion in Ruby
Recursion is a powerful concept in programming that allows a function to call itself repeatedly until a specific condition is met. This can be a useful tool ...
Fibonacci Number code challenge
The Fibonacci Number is another common code challenge and it has some simililraties with the Factorial Number we already solved.
Factorial Number code challenge
Finding the Factorial Number is a common and simple challenge. Though it’s easy to solve I find it interesting because it allows us to solve it in different ...
How this blog was built
This blog is hosted on GitHub Pages and it was built with Jekyll following a tutorial from GitHub Skills. Jekyll is a static site generator that was made to ...
Hello World!
Hello there, this my first blog post.