7 articles by Oriol Collell
Moving from Active Storage to Shrine
At MarsBased we love Ruby, and we love Rails. Ruby on Rails is one of the primary components we use to build web applications. However, this does not necessarily mean we love everything contained within Rails. We have a strong opinion on some of its components. One of that is Active Storage.
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Iterating on pull requests - don't squash commits!
Don't squash commits when iterating on pull requests. It destroys context and makes code reviews harder. Here's why keeping your Git commit history matters.
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Speeding up views rendering in Rails 4
Here's some technical post for the Rails folks out there. If you're into performance optimisation, this is for you!
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S3 versioning and lifecycles
As a development agency, we're no strangers to also building the technical architecture for our clients. That includes using Amazon's S3 service for storage, which we've used in many projects to make our clients' life easier.
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Optimising asset compilation during deployment
Although modern solutions like Docker provide most of the tools we need for the deployments of nowadays web applications, there's no one-size-fits-all solution to optimise asset compilation during deployment, especially for legacy projects.
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An alternative to Active Storage: Shrine
Shrine is a compelling alternative to Active Storage for Ruby file attachments. Here's why MarsBased chose Shrine for our own product and what sets it apart.
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Introduction to Kubernetes
We've recently gotten our hands on Kubernetes, and we've compiled a quick guide on how to get started.
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