There is always something new to learn then to share

Software industry is rich of challenges. It requires learning and testing new things, as well as constant process improvement.
I share with you interesting things that came across my daily path.

Code review: Rails process management

#Technic 01/22/2020

A friend asked a code review of some Rails controller.
He has couple of actions that requires to be chained, one to the next.
All of those actions can, of course go wrong.
Let's see how we cleaned this code.

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Integrate VueJS to Rails with Webpacker

#Technic 01/22/2020

VueJS is a popular Javascript framework.
It's light, flexible, easy to learn and work both for creating small components like a full front-end app.
Today we gonna see how to integrate this framework in Rails with Webpacker.
Note that you can follow the same steps for any other framework : Angular, React, ...
Let's dive in.


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How to manage : Technical debt

#Management 11/08/2019

Your project start, you are going fast.
Features are released regularly, as planned, everything is just perfect !
But time goes by and things run slower.
Even simple changes start to get complicated.
And the tech team start to point at the great enemy :
The TECHNICAL DEBT !

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10+ things to check before to go online

#Technic 07/09/2019

You start a fresh web application or website.
You will naturally focus on design, content and features.
But below that, there are a bunch a of basic requirements you want to do not forget.
In this article, I'll browse them, so you don't skip anything critical, whatever you develop your own solution or you delegate this task to a subcontractor.

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How to : mount Jekyll into a Rails App?

#Technic 04/06/2014

I decided to use Jekyll as bloging solution for my new site.
It's a little ruby tools that turns markdown into a complete blog made of static assets.
But what if you need to add dynamic features over it ?
You can mount it into a Rails application.

I tryed to use the Bloggy gem but it didn't bahaved as wanted.
However it gave a me a great idea of you to do it.
Let's see how to handle this.

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Let's create a Rails app to stream live logs

#Technic 04/06/2014

A company asked me to demonstrate my skills for Rails, BackboneJS, MarionetteJS and data live stream. I decided to get a try with javascript EventSource and ActionController::Live. You can take a look at the sources here. It provides an Interface to watch and filter app logs, live!

I share in this post various things I learned around this experimentation.


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