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Flyway solves one of the critical problem that we face while deploying our applications to production that is how to deploy DB changes to production DB. If you have worked with ROR then you must know ActiveRecord do provide this feature as migration files. Flyway provide similar solutions as standalone, or as gradle plugin. As…
Rubocop is a linter and code formatter for ruby, it enforces to follow the ruby style guide to improve readability and maintainability of the code https://rubystyle.guide/. To enforce this across an organisation one of the best way is to add this as a mandatory step for merging the PRs which can be done using Github…
If you have landed on this article then probably you must be facing the following issue All the library files are compiled to a single jar which is called as fat/uber jar. This is done by one of the plugin know as shadow This library have an limitation that the number of files in that…
I have been using ROR for the last eight months and started loving this language because of the poetic way it allows me to write the code. In this journey, I have found some functions which helped me to keep the code short and improved readability significantly. 1. blank? and present? A common use case…
Namecheap provide free ssl certificate for the 1st year for your website and charges around 10 dollars for a year afterwards. We can save this amount of money by installing our own certificate using lets encrypt, which provides free certificate but the down fall is you have to do this activity once in 3 months….
Introduction: Ruby is known for its flexibility and openness, allowing developers to customize and extend the language’s core functionality. One powerful way to do this is by using monkey patches. Monkey patching enables you to modify or add new behavior to existing Ruby classes or modules without changing their original source code. In this blog,…
When a particular API processing slow or performing a heavy calculation or have heavy DB queries. One of the solution to optimize the API that comes to our mind is to cache the response for appropriate amount of time. This will help us to improve the performance by overcoming the mentioned issues. It is also…
It is a little pain to copy files from a remote server in a GitHub action as you need to do authenticate and if your key is passphrase protected then it adds extra pain to it. First, we should not use sensitive data directly, that’s why GitHub provide feature like secrets. So as per our…
Recently I spent around 2 hours to get the head branch name inside a GitHub action. Context: I was trying to configure unit test for my repo, the idea was to get the PR branch name and run a script run_test.sh on a remote server that takes branch name as input. The script checkouts the…
Rails allow us to update attributes using different instance and class methods, understanding these methods allows us to avoid insane bugs. Let’s explore these methods attribute= Syntax: As you can see this is an instance method and the data is not written to the DB yet. we have to run x.save to save it. write_attribute…