New Features that We Love Are you tired of writing the same repetitive code over and over again? Say hello to Ruby’s new quality of life improvements! With the release of Ruby 3 came endless methods and with 3.1 implicit hash values, two features that have quickly become favorites among our team. In this blog …
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WebSockets and ActionCable Overview Have you ever been on a website that you had to keep reloading just to get new information? It can be frustrating, right? Well, WebSockets can fix that! They’re a technology that allows websites to communicate with a server in real-time, so updates can be pushed to your screen as soon …
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RSpec is a popular Ruby testing framework that provides a lot of powerful features for you to poke and prod your apps to get them ready for production. Developers can learn the basic structure of tests fairly quickly but the magic-like syntax can be confusing, especially to early learners. So let’s dive into some of …
Using PDFTK and the pdf-forms gem We recently worked on a client project that involved using a Rails backend to fill out PDF Forms. PDF Forms are those PDFs with editable fields, so you can insert text fields, checkboxes, signatures, etc in the file. There weren’t many resources out there for working with PDF forms …