Set Up GitLab CI for Rails Applications

It is hard to go back, once you integrate CI/CD flow into your workflow. Luckily, tools…

How to add HTTP Basic Authentication to your Rails application

From time to time, it’s good to deploy an early version of your application, so the client can take a look. With services like Heroku, it’s super easy to deploy, but it’s not good to leave the application visible to the…

How to write good content as a mediocre UI/UX Designer — [Design Case Study]

Background

Project Kickoff Meeting Checklist

So you have got a new project on your hands. You are more or less aware of the requirements, you…

Handling async tasks with Elixir

As web developers we often experience the need to do something asynchronously — like processing large data sets, communicating with external API’s or waiting for a blocking operation to finish. In this article I’m going to show you how you can handle async tasks with the…

Manual uploads using ActiveStorage

Quick tip on how to use ActiveStorage to manually upload a file

This Is How We Do: Agile For Small Distributed Teams

Direct image upload to S3 from a Rails application

Cloud storage is becoming a must nowdays. It does have many advantages and is cheaper than buying storage for your VPS.

Recently I was dealing with application that was intended to store images. We chose to use…

Combine Duplicate Rows in Spreadsheets with Power Tools