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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…
Consider we have a model student when we access data from this using the following command. The variable student contains the data of a student. Each student has enrolled in many courses, which is another model. On printing the student, we get the following data Consider if I update the course model, The expected behavior…
Recently I have been introduced to ruby, while working on the project I saw this function is been used many times in our existing codebase. Let’s discuss what problem it solves. Consider you want to call a list of functions dynamically, eg. Consider an interaction to list animals data which takes the animal name as…
Over the years, there were many competing approaches to data storage and querying. The oldest and best-known database is a relational database, where the data is organized into relations called a table. To overcome the drawbacks of Relational Database like scalability, a document model database is introduced the term NoSql got famous. The term NoSQL…
A database is a collection of data, arranged in such a way that you can access and manage it easily. The database is vast topic concepts like index, ACID, CAP theorem, types of databases, normalization, Sharding, Consistency, MapReduce, Eventual Consistency is some of the interesting topics in this field. This blog will be a series…