Virtus is a popular Ruby gem described as attributes on steroids for plain old Ruby objects. I saw it being used in many API based applications so when I was building API for my app I chose the virtus too

Starting out with a software project, authentication is usually quite a simple problem to solve. You simply create a users table in the database, collect users’ usernames and passwords, and authenticate users against it

I have been coding in Ruby for last 6 years and it is my strongest language by far. However, as I was preparing to interview at top tech companies, I faced a big question - which programming language should I use?

Using the ENUM method is widely considered “best practice” in the Rails community, and there are plenty of articles written about how to use them

Have you ever worked in a web application with many custom user interface (UI) components? How were they structured? I will share some tips and tricks on how to organize them in a RoR application.

No, that’s not a typo. The fear and stress were gut-wrenching. I couldn’t think of anything else, it was all-consuming. There was no way to relax, to get my mind off of it

Yes, for most projects you should write automated tests. You should if you value your time anyway. Much better to catch a bug locally from the tests than getting a call at 2:00 in the morning and fix it then