Kamal Rails on Hetzner Series Part 2: Deploy Postgres with your Rails application

In Part 1 of this Kamal series, we deployed a vanilla Rails application to a remote server using Kamal. By default, Rails applications use SQLite, but most production applications require Postgres....

Nov 19, 2023 hetzner, kamal, Kamal, Postgres, PostgreSQL, Rails, Ruby, ruby on rails, RubyOnRails

Deploying Rails app using Kamal - How to reset your server

Kamal is still in its early stages and is being battle-tested. While deploying Rails applications with Kamal, you may occasionally need to reset your server and start fresh. Unlike Rails, there’s n...

Nov 19, 2023 hetzner, kamal, Kamal, Rails, Ruby, ruby on rails, RubyOnRails

Kamal Rails on Hetzner Series Part 1: Deploy Rails application on Hetzner

Kamal is a modern deployment tool for Rails applications, announced by DHH in February 2023 and featured in his RailsWorld Keynote. With Heroku having removed their free tier, Kamal has gained sign...

Nov 2, 2023 hetzner, kamal, Kamal, Rails, Ruby, ruby on rails, RubyOnRails

Integrate OpenAI API with Rails

ChatGPT and OpenAI is definitely the rage right now. I’m specifically amazed by the reach of this technology more than anything else. I’d argue that going by this trend, ChatGPT might reach more us...

May 30, 2023 ChatGPT, OpenAI, OpenAIAPI, Rails, Rails ChatGPT, Rails Open AI, Rails OpenAI API

How to build a modal using Rails Hotwire, Tailwind, ViewComponents and Stimulus

I was recently tasked with this feature to create a modal in our Rails monolithic application at work. This was the acceptance criteria in the ticket: Bit of background: We have an applicati...

Mar 16, 2023 Hotwire, Modal, Rails, Ruby, RubyOnRails, Stimulus, TailwindCSS, ViewComponent

Favorite Ruby Gems Series – Episode #1 – annotate

I am going to start a series where I write about some of my favorite gems in Ruby / Ruby on Rails. These gems are in no specific order. I would like to start this series with the annotate gem. Wha...

Mar 4, 2023 annotate, annotate gem, Favorite Ruby Gems, rails annotate gem, rails gems, ruby gems

Rails Testing Magic Tools: seed and bisect

Testing is a huge aspect of a Ruby on Rails developer’s life. Concepts like TDD are hugely popular and also heavily contested at the same time in the Rails community. Even if a company follows test...

Jun 30, 2022 Minitest, Rails, Rails Testing, Rspec, ruby on rails

Rails Middleware, Exception Handling and JSON APIs

A Ruby on Rails web app is nothing but several Rack apps stacked on top of each other. When a request is made to a Ruby on Rails web server, the request is passed along several Rack apps before it ...

Sep 5, 2020 Exception Handling, Rails JSON API, Uncategorized

Custom Rails generators for creating and validating JSON APIs

In the previous post, I wrote about how we can use APIPIE to document and validate a REST API. We define the request response schema format in a separate file outside of our controller which helps ...

Aug 30, 2020 Rails, Rails Generators, Rails JSON API Documentation, ruby on rails

Documentation Driven Development with Apipie

Have you ever had to scavenge through the source code just to figure out how to use the damn REST API? Have you ever had a bug because the front-end was expecting a response in a different format?...

Aug 16, 2020 apipie, documentation, Rails, rails api documentation, Rails JSON API, Rails JSON API Documentation, REST API Documentation, ruby on rails