Rails 5 — ActiveRecord Suppress — a step too far?

One of the new additions to ActiveRecord that’s gonna be coming out with the Rails 5 release is the ActiveRecord::Base.suppress method.

I have some criticism of this new feature and would like to articulate those in…

Embed Responsive Webpages in a React-Native App

Embedding a responsive website on a mobile app helps us to show dynamic content without the need to go and edit the actual mobile code.

Several apps like embedding web urls in to their mobile apps to avoid the long-cycle…

Two things you must do when building your own simple AJAX search

TL;DR
1. Perform debouncing to avoid unnecessary requests
2. Remember to cancel old pending requests

Handle ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound More Elegantly

Most of us usually handle the Active Record Not Found error in ApplicationController and then redirect it to a generic view page. I found a different and more efficient way to handle it.

The notorious callback that drove me nuts — starring PostgreSQL, Unicorn, PubNub, EventMachine & ActiveRecord!

I’ve been working on a live streaming platform at Spritle for one of our clients and couple of weeks back they had to run an event on it for a…

Inject your dependencies

Dependency Injection (DI) is not a very well received idea in the Ruby world. But once you understand what its all about, its not at as scary as many people consider it to be.

Leadership — like growing a plant

I’m reading this book — “Becoming a technical leader” by Gerald Weinberg now and I came across something very profound in the introductory section and I thought I’d write about it here.