Upgrading your Rails App with Shims and Monkey Patches Maintaining an up-to-date Rails version is essential for the performance, security, and scalability of your application. However, as Ruby/Rails advances, deprecated methods and past version functionality may need to be moved to shims and monkey patches. This guide will provide an overview of what shims and monkey patches are, why…

Welcome to the next chapter! Today we will be developing the UI for interacting with the contracts we developed on the last episode. For this, we will be developing a Next.js project using React. Let's get hands on! The basic idea would be to create a simple UI that would…

Web3 is nowadays changing the dynamics of everything we now, from currency exchange to how assets are known, and it is a matter not to be ignored. It is not a complex topic as everybody thinks is, it is not simple either, it is just a matter of understanding. Web3…

Since 2017, Github release a feature to be able to create templates for your pull requests, so that each time a new PR was created, its description was not empty but the developer could use the template to provide some context. In order to use this feature create a new…

In past episodes of this topic, we have spoken about Blocks(meter link) and Procs and lambdas(meter links). However, their behavior and purpose can be extended falling into more complex topics The & To put the cherry on top of this saga, we will talk about & . As it happened with yield…

As we said in previous articles: Blocks in the end are just closures for chunks of code, not really objects. They do not store any reference to the class that has been instantiated nor any instance variables or inheritance chains. They are just chunks of code bound to a context. …

TL;DR: Here is a link to my PR template following the best practices described in this article Intro: PRs with many parents The bigger the company the harder it is to achieve consensus over pull request creation, redaction, and formatting. …

When writing Ruby code you might have wondered: what is a block, the difference between a Proc and a lambda , and what makes them so special. Well, you came to the right place 😉 What is a block in Ruby? A block is just an anonymous (they do not have their own name) function or…

From my early days in software engineering, I got the idea that a great software engineer was being the best programmer out there. Creating code so beautiful and elegant that people would be amazed. Well, how wrong I was 😉 1. Be everybody’s favourite writer Masterpieces are great, and so is complex yet elegant…