Inheritance in Ruby and Ruby-on-Rails is a key element that has a great potential to develop robust interfaces. Inheritance is a concept which is directly related with Object Oriented Programming (OOP). What is object oriented programming (OOP)? Object Oriented Programming aims to bring the logics of the real world to programming languages in order to …
ViewComponent is a Ruby gem for creating reusable, testable, and encapsulated view components in Ruby-on-Rails. What is a ViewComponent and why should you use them? A ViewComponent is simply a Ruby object and a template. There are five main reasons why you should use ViewComponents! ViewComponents are ideal for templates that are constantly reused or …
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link_to is a helper method in Ruby that is very useful to enable users to navigate through applications. Ruby-on-Rails and links The link_to helper simply builds links. It works not only to guide the user from one page to another, but to include parameters and queries in the redirection path. Many will think that the link_to helper works exactly …
AlpineJS is a very promising JavaScript tool for already-rendered HTML. It sounds an awfully good fit for Ruby-on-Rails. Let’s dive in. Rails and AlpineJS : wedding time Have a sneak peak to the official AlpineJS documentation . AlpineJS is here to augment in the browser behaviours of HTML that is already rendered by the server. Like jQuery did. Like Hotwire …
A Ruby hash is a way to store and structure data. Let’s see how to define a hash and how to use it. And the main methods and operations, through examples. What is a hash and how is it different from an array? Hashes, just as arrays, can be understood as lists of data that …
Ruby-on-Rails for the backend part, and some VueJS into your views. This short tutorial helps you to put pieces together. 1. Why VueJS and Rails Ruby-on-Rails minimalistic, default app starts without VueJS. Even JavaScript is optional. But only submitting forms and display inputs is no more a web standard. Dynamic, intuitive interfaces are. This is …
Rails 8 has not yet a release date at this time of writing. What kind of feature could be fun in the (future) Ruby-on-Rails 8 release ? Let’s dream. Rails 8 : More confidence in existing tools Rails tend to anticipate the trends – which means how neat are the maintainers. ActionText is one example. …
If you are not familiar with the pattern matching feature in Ruby, this article is a good recap of the basics and it also includes some useful tips for developers. What is pattern matching? If you are new to the feature, welcome to the typical “Pattern matching journey”; where first, you don’t know what it …
Ruby-on-Rails : everything you should know before joining a Web Development Bootcamp, and my own review of Le Wagon. Le Wagon coding bootcamp : why BootrAils could be something that will help you after the coding bootcamp is over. Before this, let’s see why you should enter the arena. Are you considering a new career path in the tech industry? Do you …
In this article we will explore the self keyword of the Ruby language What is self in Ruby self is a reserved keyword in Ruby that always refers to the current object and classes are also objects, but the object self refers to frequently changes based on the situation or context. So if you’re in an instance, self refers to …