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So we've finally taken the plunge and carried out our first Action Text implementation. It was used to power a blog. But we ran into an issue. Problem Here are the symptoms We were on Rails 6 We had Active Storage setup…
So one of the gems we use a lot in our Ruby on Rails applications is Resque. For those who don't know, it's a library that allows you to run background tasks that are separate from the main web thread. This gets…
Everyone loves laughing with others about their mistakes. Let’s laugh at me for a second here. I test my Rails applications with RSpec. While editing the users factory for 2 new user types, I copied lines 19-23 in the…
Ruby on Rails is an amazing framework. At BiteSite, we started using it back in 2011 and haven’t stopped since. It’s combination of technical ability and software philosophy has kept it our framework of choice when it…
So we've been using Carrierwave for a while. It's an amazing solution for Ruby on Rails apps that need to store files. We use it mainly with Amazon AWS S3 as our storage. However, recently when trying to use it for a…
As a junior Ruby on Rails developer, GoRails has been a great help with all their free video tutorials Chris Oliver creates. When I started to venture into rails templates, I found he hosts a repository of community…
After about 5 years of doing Ruby on Rails development, there is one aspect that for the longest time never seemed to sit well with me: TDD. It wasn't that I didn't understand the benefits, and it wasn't that I didn't…
So I've been programming Ruby on Rails for about 9 years now and I'm still learning new things everyday. This is one that definitely caused us some issues. Setup So here's the setup. We have a User model class User <…
This is going to be a quick post and applies to a lot of different languages, but it's something we've been doing in our Rails projects a decent amount. If you're ever working on a larger codebase and you decide you…