Note: This article is a sample chapter in my upcoming book Building a SaaS Ruby on Rails 5. The book will guide you from humble beginnings… (more…)

Service objects are a pattern that I believe should be part of Rails’ default. This extends the basic MVC model by introducing services to implement business... (more…)

During this year I noticed 2 similar concurrency problems with my Ruby on Rails application and I solved them with distributed locks. I’m going to show you h... (more…)

Is the end of Ruby on Rails nigh? Everything seems to point that way. (more…)

Our task today is to add unique slugs to our Company model on our Ruby on Rails app. The Company model has name and location properties, and we want to use those to create the slug. E.g. the company named Lugo Labs and based in London should have a slug, ...