• Dec 8, 2020

  Use SSL in Rails local development with Puma

  Having a Rails local development environment with SSL/HTTPS support can be very handy. You can work with payment plaforms APIs, like Stripe or Apple Pay, without having to resort to tools like ngrok and you can increase development/production parity.

• Dec 1, 2020

  Pass params to Rails redirect_back

  Since Rails 5, the golden standard for redirecting the browser to the page that issued the request, has been ActionController::Redirecting#redirect_back. Unfortunately redirect_back doesn’t allow you to modify in any way the URL provided by referer header.

• Nov 29, 2020

  Start Rails server with advanced Puma config

  Wondering why your beautifully crafted config/puma.rb Puma configuration file is almost entirely ignored when starting a development Rails server?

• Nov 28, 2020

  Yes, you should read The Pragmatic Programmer

  There are a few good books in software development that can stand the test of time. “The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master” by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas is one of them.
  It’s always hard recommending books, there are so many variables to consider, but fortunately with some books you can’t go wrong.