A few days ago, we looked at the rationale behind how one of our project teams tackled the question: How would we set up end-to-end testing for a product that had a Angular 5 frontend and Rails 5 API backend? This was from Part 1 of this series. If you’re...
Like a lot of Rails developers, I rarely write view specs. In almost all the projects I’ve seen and worked with, there have been hardly any view specs that were actively maintained. There are a few reasons for this: they can be brittle, add little perceived...
Web applications always have a backend and a frontend. Waaaaaaaay back in the day the norm was to use backend technologies to develop both the backend and frontend. Server-side code would generate and spit out HTML and JavaScript to a user’s browser. Nowadays,...
Recently, we added WebSockets support to our application so the server could tell connected clients about great things that just happened. Our frontend, an Angular 5 app, really loves itself some lowerCamelCase property keys. Our backend, a Rails 5 API, was doing the...
At some point in every web programmer’s life, you will be asked to implement a web form that allows users to apply a set of filters to a table of data. Depending on the quantity and type of form filter parameters being sent, it can be easy to end up with a...
The other week we took a look at importing data quickly into Ruby on Rails applications and saw how activerecord-import can speed up importing large sets of data, by 13x to nearly 40x, with just a few lines of code. One thing that post didn’t cover was how to...
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