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Jun 3 2021

How I organize my Rails apps

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How I organize my Rails apps
Influenced by the experiences I’ve had last ten years of building and maintaining Rails applications, combined with my experiences using other technologies, I’ve developed some ways of structuring Rails applications that have worked out pretty well for me.
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Rails
This article is a quick tip for anyone working with APIs in a Rails application and parsing the data without modeling it.
Learn how to create and implement a row level security policy in Rails, allowing to limit the database rows a user can access.
Ruby
Ruby lets you express yourself like few other languages, with a minimum of boilerplate. It's fantastic until it isn't. Until one day when you think you're calling the `foo` method you wrote last week, but instead, you end up calling a `foo` method that came with some gem from 2008.
The Jekyll CI does lots of things in it that a simple Jekyll site build might not but clearly JRuby was slowing the whole process down by a significant amount, and this surprised me: Wasn’t the entire point of using JRuby, and its new brother TruffleRuby, speed? Why was JRuby so slow?
Blast from the past
As I focus on becoming a better manager of engineers, I have been reflecting more and more on the advice that produced a 10X boost in my abilities at that same stage. 
Pull requests are good. But they can hinder the team performance.
Beyond Ruby
This article explores the old question what to use for autogenerated primary keys: UUID, serial or identity column?
Continuous Integration and Feature Branching are both very popular ways of organising work in a development team, but they are mutually exclusive for most cases.
Repository of the week
Low-code Admin panel and Business intelligence Rails engine. No DSL - configurable from the UI.

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