Publications and more.
Journey of discovery and learning. Here, I write what I want. Programming, privacy, open-source software, and more.
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18 April 2024
authenticate_by: Prevent timing-based enumeration of users.
With the introduction of authenticate_by in Rails 7.1, we can now prevent enumeration attacks based on response times.
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3 March 2024
Exploring the Possibilities of WebAssembly: Ruby in the Browser
WebAssembly (abbreviated as Wasm) is a binary instruction format designed to be interpreted by stack-based virtual machines.
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8 December 2023
💎Ruby Tip💎 Did you know that Ruby supports Pattern Matching?
Pattern Matching in Ruby allows for concise data destructuring, making it easy to assign variables with clear syntax. From filtering values in arrays to customizing destructuring in classes, this feature simplifies data manipulation in an elegant way.
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26 November 2023
Asynchronous Loading in Active Record: Boosting the Performance of your Rails Application 🚀
Optimize performance in Rails 7.1 with asynchronous data loading using Active Record and the load_async method. Reduce response times by running queries in parallel, improving the efficiency of your application.
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20 November 2023
💎Ruby Tip💎 Interactive debugging without the need to install gems.
Discover a simple and fast way to debug in Ruby without installing additional gems. With the Binding class and the integrated IRB console, you can explore and modify the execution context to resolve errors efficiently.
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8 November 2023
Rails Service Objects: A small guide to speed up your code
A Service Object is a Ruby class that groups business logic in an organized way in your Ruby on Rails application. Its use simplifies code, facilitates testing, encourages reuse and raises the quality of your application.
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1 November 2023
Create Your Free Web Site: Jekyll and GitLab Pages Make It Possible
Discover how to set up your own website at no cost using Jekyll and GitLab Pages.
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20 October 2023
🚀General guide to running Ruby on Rails with Docker🚀
Mounting Ruby on Rails on Docker offers isolation to avoid conflicts, portability to take your application anywhere, effortless scalability, easy maintenance and efficient team collaboration.
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18 October 2023
ActiveStorage: Avoiding the problem of N+1 queries
The N+1 problem is common in database-oriented programming and occurs when an additional query is required for each relationship between objects, generating an excess of queries. This problem also affects Active Storage, which creates records in the database through polymorphic relationships.
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2 October 2023
Create Your Free Website: Jekyll and GitHub Pages Make It Possible
Discover how to set up your own website at no cost using Jekyll and GitHub Pages.
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19 September 2023
Do you know how much CO2 your website generates?
Nowadays, anyone who wants to be known by the world creates a website concerned that the costs are not high, the communication is clear, the design is beautiful and it never stops working. But I think there is another aspect to take into consideration equally or more important: the carbon footprint.
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14 September 2023
Digital Privacy: Are You Willing to Let Them Watch You?
The right to privacy is directly related to the right to freedom of expression, equality and non-discrimination. If we lose the first one then it is very likely that the following will also be violated. To avoid this we must be aware of what data we give out (difficult to know), with whom it will be shared, what it will be used for and how to take care of ourselves when browsing.
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9 September 2023
hCaptcha: How to integrate it into your Ruby on Rails application and why.
hCaptcha defines itself as the largest independent catpcha service. They claim to be running on 15% of the internet and that it is possible to compete with the tech giants by focusing on privacy. Let's see how easy it is to install this captcha in a Ruby on Rails application.
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1 September 2023
Quick Guide to Web Scraping with Ruby
Discover how to perform web scraping in Ruby with Nokogiri, the leading HTML and XML document parsing library. Learn the key techniques in this article on web scraping in Ruby.
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14 August 2023
Creating a chatbot with GPT and Rails.
We will see how to create a custom chat with persistence with Ruby On Rails and ChatGPT. After interacting in a couple of applications with the OpenAi API I want to show how you could make a simple chat that could scale to whatever you want using Ruby On Rails.
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8 July 2023
PostgreSQL and pgAdmin in Docker Compose: Quickstart
Discover how to get PostgreSQL and pgAdmin up and running in an agile way with Docker Compose. A quick guide to get your tools ready in minutes in your local development environment.
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7 July 2023
Using MariaDB and phpMyAdmin with Docker and Docker Compose
Quickly and efficiently configure MariaDB and phpMyAdmin in Docker Compose to simplify the management of your databases in your development environment.
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15 June 2023
SpaceVim as Your Ruby IDE: Configuration Tips and Workflow
Explore how I transformed SpaceVim into my Ruby IDE, after saying goodbye to Atom. SpaceVim, based on Vim/NeoVim and inspired by SpaceMacs, is an open source distribution backed by an active community.
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8 June 2023
Minitest-cc: A minimalistic way to know what is the code coverage of your tests.
Ministest-cc is a lightweight and simple plug-in for the Minitest framework that provides an output about the code coverage of your tests. Here we will see how to install it and how it works.
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