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Timi Ajiboye in chunks of code*

Aug 12, 2017

Getting JSON Body from Retrofit Error (Kotlin)

Update: You can see the class we end up writing, but in Java here.

I started using Kotlin in Android, yesterday. Yes, yesterday. I haven’t even done serious Android development in a while, so I was completely lost; drowning…

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Timi Ajiboye in chunks of code*

Feb 12, 2017

“Neatly” dealing with JSON.parse-d Hashes in Ruby

So you use some REST API that responds with JSON with a ton of nested objects and arrays, an example of this is the Google Maps Direction API.

Timi Ajiboye in chunks of code*

Jan 27, 2017

Very simple permissions in Rails

I was working on a very simple Rails API, using devise_token_auth and I need to authorize controller actions based on user roles.

(Although, this should work fine for regular ol’ devise)

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Timi Ajiboye in chunks of code*

Jul 7, 2017

GraphQL: New, shiny and worth the hype!

It’s hard to keep up in the world of software development, especially these days. There’s always some new framework, library, preprocessor, server, language. Knowing which is just noise to be ignored or which is groundbreaking is not a trivial task . Also…

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Timi Ajiboye in chunks of code*

Jan 29, 2017

Testing your Rails APIs with Airborne.

It took me a long long time to finally decided to write tests. I’ll probably write about the thought process and why I think you should write tests later.

If you use Rails to build REST APIs, and you want the number of times the FE…

Timi Ajiboye in chunks of code*

Jul 26, 2017

Testing graphql-ruby resolve classes with rspec

This is going to be a relatively short post. It’s something I just did and felt like sharing in the moment.

I have this project that uses graphql-ruby (it’s an amazing gem). As you quickly find out, it’s neater to have…

Timi Ajiboye in chunks of code*

Apr 29, 2017

Pragma — A new way to build Rails REST APIs

I did some work with Alessandro Desantis recently and he introduced me into a very different, but also very reasonable way of making JSON REST APIs with Ruby on Rails.

Timi Ajiboye in chunks of code*

Apr 5, 2017

Why I started writing tests — and other stories.

As a software developer, especially one with little experience, it’s very easy to get confused about what you should do and what you shouldn’t do.

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Timi Ajiboye in chunks of code*

Jul 17, 2017

Yes, another Twitter app.

Generally, my experience with Twitter for Mac hasn’t been good. It’s probably much better these days, but my…

Timi Ajiboye in chunks of code*

Sep 22, 2017

Securing requests between two back-end applications

I’m working on a super-top-secret-but-not-really-maybe-cryptocurrency-related web product and I eventually ended up needing two back-end applications; one built in Rails and the other in Node.js

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