Kenneth Kebaara

May 5

Pros and Cons of Ruby On Rails

Ruby on Rails, often just called “Rails”, is a development tool that gives web developers access to libraries, thus providing structure for all the code they write. It is a server-side web app framework that extends the Ruby programming language. Potential Ruby on Rails pros Large Community-Rails is more than a development tool; it is…

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Mar 31

Serialization In Ruby On Rails

What is Serialization? JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a data format that encodes objects in a string. Such data representation can easily be translated between server and browser but also between server and server. Serialization is a process that transforms an object into that string. Why? we need to send a standardized and formatted…

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Mar 24

Fast Auth in a Rails API

Here is how you can set up Authentication quickly in a Rails API Before we start we will need the bycpt gem gem install bcrypt Then we start by building the User model with email and password attributes rails g model User email password_digest After this we can check our…

Ruby On Rails Development

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Mar 11

Fake It Till You Make It: Guide On Using the Faker Gem.

In this blog I will try and explain the what, why and how to using the Faker Gem. First: What is the Faker Gem? The Faker gem is a ruby library that is used to generate fake data. Why would someone want to use the Faker Gem or fake data…

Faker

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Feb 16

Git-Ting Through Software Development

What is git? Git is an open source distributed version control system. It allows users to track changes in an application, folder or a file over time. This is done across different users and different computers making it very useful. …

Git

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