In this blog post I will introduce Hash#dig_and_collect , a simple utility method that is built on top of Hash#dig to help you navigate nested hashes mixed up with arrays.
Tag: ruby
Dockerized Rails Capybara tests on top of Selenium
If you use Docker to deploy your Rails application you may want to use the same infrastructure to run your tests. However the setup of your Selenium browser tests is far from obvious with Rails and Docker and may generate some confusion . The short answer is available in this repository on Github. For the long answer keep reading this blog post […]
How to isolate complex queries in an object oriented fashion
Building complex queries in ruby can make your code quite difficult to read, manage and reuse. In this blog post I'll present a simple method to decorate active record objects to make your queries fun again!
Upload video files with progress bar using Rails, Paperclip and Javascript
Rails does not help much when dealing with AJAX uploads by means of external JS libraries. I recently came across a case where a user on www.codementor.io was struggling to use JQuery-upload-file to upload a video to a Rails backend. The main reason to use the library was the progress bar feature, something that is […]
Understanding the Resque internals - Resque::DirtyExit unveiled
If your Resque jobs fail because of a mysterious Resque::DirtyExit a quick tour of the Resque internals will help you fix the issue and be back up and running in a matter of minutes.
Bringing Ruby fetch to the Javascript world
If you are a Rubyist you are probably comfortable using the fetch method on a day-to-day basis but when you are developing in Javascript this sweetness is not immediately available. This is why I wrote underscorejs-fetch.