In my time as a developer, I have noticed that one of the most common ways my coworkers spend time coding outside of work is by developing little code snippets or apps that solve problems in their everyday lives. From household budgeting, to managing workouts on rowing machines, to generating a Taco Bell order, these projects allow devs to explore…
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20 Jan
4 Dec 2025
Picture this: you find a charming old board game at a garage sale, bring it home, gather some friends—and snap. The 50-year-old plastic components break instantly. You search the web for help to replace this fun and unique game mechanic but there’s nothing to be found. So naturally, you roll up your sleeves and build your own mobile version. No…
2 Dec 2025
It's the most wonderful time of the year - Christmas Advent of Code time! Advent of Code is an Advent Calendar style series of programming puzzles put out each year, starting on December 1st leading up to Christmas. The puzzles are super festive and ramp up in difficulty over the course of the month. Programmers of every level can participate,…
27 Nov 2025
Shipping new features on legacy Rails applications requires deep codebase context. The rails-mcp-server gem closes the gap between AI agents and your Rails projects, enabling more relevant code analysis and context aware refactoring suggestions. Whether you're dealing with tech debt in a brownfield application or building new greenfield features, this tool can help you move faster with confidence. The Model…
18 Nov 2025
Claude code is a powerful AI toolset that runs right in your terminal. While providing a lot of impressive utility, it also suffers from the issues that arise from similar AI toolings with the addition of an expensive pricing model. Context is Important To me, the main selling point for Claude Code is its ability to read through your entire…
7 Apr 2023
When it comes to the communication between microservices, there are 2 possible extremes: All-sync: whenever a service needs data from another service, it fetches it via a synchronous API call (REST, gRPC, GraphQL). Service calls service calls service… which tends to evolve into layers of APIs, where each layer has dependencies on the next. All-async: no sync calls between services,…
31 Mar 2023
This is an introduction to how we’ve implemented microservices at a mid-size scale-up called Jobteaser , with a mix of Go and Ruby service chassis, gRPC APIs and data replication via Kafka. Foundation: The service chassis Back in early 2019, when Jobteaser decided to get serious about breaking up its decade-old Rails monolith into microservices, we assembled a Foundation team…
7 Feb 2023
By: Kyler Stole If you ever struggle to express a query in ActiveRecord, you may be able to build it with Arel instead. Arel is the platform that manages the abstract syntax tree (AST) used to build SQL queries in Rails. It’s the implementation underneath the veneer of ActiveRecord (AR) and it’s considerably more flexible than just the functionality that…
7 Feb 2022
We were recently testing PassKit as a way of managing membership cards for giving societies. Passkit is very up-front that they are not a CRM and strongly suggest using their API for integrating with outside systems, or for editing pretty much any data. To kick the tires, we set up some very basic scripts to connect to the Passkit API.…
22 Nov 2019
I recently faced some issues when trying to update a nested document’s type via nested attributes using the mongoid gem. Bare with me if this sentence doesn’t make any sense yet. Use case Suppose we have a document named Person that embeds a document that can be any of the types Book or BoardGame which inherit from the class Item.…
7 Apr 2019
Hey! In this post we are going to: create a docker image for the Rails chat application that we created in the previous post configure the Docker environment and run the application by: creating a container for the PostgreSQL database creating a container for the Redis server creating a container with the required configuration from the image we built Prerequisites…
4 Apr 2019
Hey! It’s been a while since my last post. I recently familiarized myself with the awesomeness of WebSockets and I finally found the time to write a tutorial about it. I hope you find it helpful. Update: I also published another post for dockerizing the application of this tutorial, you can find it here. Introduction In this tutorial we are…
24 Jul 2018
8 Jun 2012
Hello people! I am now finishing my Post-graduate course in Web Development at PUCMG and I had the RubyOnRails discipline to do. The final work was develop a simple Social Network app using RubyOnRails. I love that framework and think the Ruby language is amazing. So, the final result is shared in GitHub at https://github.com/juniorgrossi/social_network_dsw7 … Continue reading MySocial –…