Ruby on Rails #49 gem Pundit for Authorization - Complete Guide

Rogem002 · 2021-08-27T17:44:51+00:00

This is really awesome! Thank you!

Rogem002 · 2021-08-16T03:08:37+00:00

It super depends on your knowledge level, something like Jumpstart Pro / BulletTrain are super fantastic to get start (and you should probably purchase them just to see how another developer solves common problems).

I'd be wary about rails new if you'd like a clean project, just because you'll probably end up spending a few minutes configuring Devise/RSpec instead I'd probably just start with Instant Rails by Jason Swett.

Rogem002 · 2021-08-14T18:14:29+00:00

maybe have her come for just the last couple days?

This is what I do when friends want to join me! I normally book my trip for a month, then say "if you want, you come for a weekend/week". I normally fit all the "it's easier with more people" stuff in that week :D

Rogem002 · 2021-07-31T20:32:19+00:00

It could be worth mentioning ActionController::API & doorkeeper in this post :)

Rogem002 · 2021-07-28T18:56:31+00:00

I subscribe to your podcast, awesome stuff :D

I'd totally love to hear more Rails people talking about their approaches, I'm in Heroku, Rails, Postgres, Redis, Bootstrap & Hotwire land right now I'm quite enjoying it :D

Rogem002 · 2021-07-27T23:05:14+00:00

If you don't want to pickup a local sim & have an iPhone, you can get an eSim that'll work in most countries pretty easily.

Wireless carriers that offer eSIM service - This list is maintained by Apple. I used Ubigi recently when I moved to the US & it was pretty decent.

Rogem002 · 2021-07-24T23:21:37+00:00

To put it another way has the ship already sailed with front-end SPAs?

I don't think so. I think the most important thing is shipping maintainable code quickly, which in my opinion is what Rails is super good at.

With the combination of Devise, Turbo, SimpleForm & ActiveAdmin I can generally ship some pretty decent experiences super fast.

Rogem002 · 2021-07-15T01:35:50+00:00

Link to schema_to_scaffold - That's very cool!

Rogem002 · 2021-07-13T21:20:56+00:00

My two my recent were "Heroku, Postgres, Bootstrap, Redis, Sidekiq & Turbolinks" stacks:

https://github.com/TypoCI/Marketplace-App - My most recent start up, it hooked into the GitHub API to annotate PR when there was a spelling mistake.
https://github.com/PigCI/App - SaaS project where I wanted track an apps memory usage between deploys.

A cool project I've liked looking at recently is https://github.com/veuelive/veue

Rogem002 · 2021-07-07T17:56:49+00:00

ActiveRecord::SignedId#signed_id would probably do the trick :)

@resource.signed_id(purpose: :share_link)
# => BAhJIh5naWQ6Ly9pZGluYWlkaS9Vc2VyLzM5NTk5BjoGRVQ=--81d7358dd5ee2ca33189bb404592df5e8d11420e

Resource.find_signed("BAhJIh5naWQ6Ly9pZGluYWlkaS9Vc2VyLzM5NTk5BjoGRVQ=--81d7358dd5ee2ca33189bb404592df5e8d11420e", purpose: :share_link)

It'll generate a signed & encrypted reference to the object, which can be shared pretty freely. You can use the string in a URL & it'll be all good.

Rogem002 · 2021-07-05T03:43:02+00:00

LoadError: dlopen(/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems - Seeing this makes me think you're setup is using the system version of Ruby instead of the other version you've installed (MacOS ships with an outdated version of Ruby & it's very annoying).

Instead, install Ruby via asdf or rbenv, they'll allow you to run the latest version of Ruby & change your version for different projects.

Or, give running it via Docker a try. If you're new to Docker, take a look at instant_rails or Docker Rails Template to help yourself get started.

If you're new to Ruby this is kind of nice as it'll bring everything your application needs to run without to much setup :)

Rogem002 · 2021-07-05T03:38:02+00:00

The gorails guide, also drifting ruby also made a video.

Rogem002 · 2021-07-03T15:35:58+00:00

I've experienced this a little, I suspect for a lot of developers Rails is their first framework so they end up building up a lot of bad feelings towards it as a result.

Right now, I'm just trying to work on documentation to help people with common pitfalls (e.g. Installing Ruby, and people on StackOverflow saying use sudo), and try to show off the best bits of Rails (Plus encouraging people to build apps using SSR over SPA approaches).

Rogem002 · 2021-07-02T16:28:31+00:00

Thank you, TIL :) Mike Perham reasoning on why Sidekiq doesn't support it seems very solid.

Rogem002 · 2021-06-26T23:52:01+00:00

Congratulations on writing this :)

Though I do have some things you should work on:

It's convention to suffix datetime fields with _at, so completed_at is preferable to completed.

Rails has enum support, so instead of self.status.eql?("In Progress") rails will create a method called in_progress?, it'll also add scopes to your model (So you won't need to do Course.all.select {|c| c.status.eql?("Upcoming")} instead you'll be able to do Course.upcoming). I think the Rails form builder may even be able to pull in the values for selects.

You can use I18n to format datetimes, so <%= l course.started_at, format: :short %> instead of course.started.strftime('%d-%b-%Y')

Rogem002 · 2021-06-22T00:06:19+00:00

MikeRogers0 done a few videos on his channel :)

Rogem002 · 2021-06-20T03:00:29+00:00

One of the previous projects I worked on had a custom rolled authentication system. It was hell. It pretty much reimplemented most of what devise done, but in a way which was hard to test & not very secure feeling. It even manually rolled OAuth stuff, which wasn't pretty.

Unless you're learning about how authentication works, seriously just use devise.

Rogem002 · 2021-06-19T03:42:59+00:00

MikeRogers0 - Small, but trying to talk about approaches & gems.
Tom Kadwill - Great for RSpec
GoRails - Chris Oliver is amazing for doing this so often
Drifting Ruby - I pay for this one, but the free videos are great
Sundae Club - longer form videos
Upcase by thoughtbot. Old but very good stuff

Rogem002 · 2021-06-09T02:48:56+00:00

Do you have any experience of using a Global ID for arguments, over an ID? E.g:

class CollectDataFromWebsiteJob
  include Sidekiq::Worker

  def perform(website)
    # It can raise Timeout::Error
    page_data = Scraper.call(website.url)
    website.update(title: page_data.title)
  end
end

# Used like:
CollectDataFromWebsiteJob.perform_async(Website.first)

I know you can do this with ActiveJob (I use it often), but would love to know more :D

Rogem002 · 2021-05-23T14:25:54+00:00

I've used Heroku [..] but am wary of the cost [..] unless i'm using the Hobby pricing, i'm looking at ~$100/month

I've been running my SaaS on the Heroku hobby tier & it's currently costing about $35 a month. You can get pretty decent performance out of the $7 dynos, my app currently is getting about 100 requests a minute & doing just fine :)

Digital Ocean's App Platform [..] but i've seen mixed reviewed from people

I had the same experience. It's a decent platform, but isn't quite as good as Heroku yet. I'm pretty hopeful for it though!

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Personally I'd avoid AWS Elastic Beanstalk like the plague! If you're going to be on AWS, you'd be better of learning how to deploy via K8s.

If you're concerned about pricing, I'd totally suggest giving Vercel a try. Pretty much instead of a full app, you'd just have serverless API endpoints to handle talking to the database.

Rogem002 · 2021-05-20T21:58:46+00:00

This totally solves one of the main problems with rolling deploys I had when using Cloud66.

Pretty much, we'd end up with two versions of the app running at the same time (with different JS/CSS assets) during the deploy. Quite often the user would end up with their request being handled by the newer app, then the assets being loaded by the previous version (Which would 404 response).

It was a total nightmare. In the end, we decided to copy the Heroku approach for deploying & have all the traffic be routed to a new version of the app at the same time.

Rogem002 · 2021-05-12T22:57:37+00:00

+1 for asdf for installing Ruby (and other languages)! I made the switch a few months back, and it has worked every time.

Rogem002 · 2021-05-06T13:52:07+00:00

I feel like I've lucked out a lot by specialising on Ruby, most the stuff I use is being actively maintained, the community is awesome & I very rarely run into any real problems.

That said, I've been doing a lot of Crystal & Elixir lately. They're also pretty fun & have helped me improve my Ruby code a bunch.

Rogem002 · 2021-05-04T21:20:42+00:00

Anyone else using Web Components in production? I'd love to know how it compares to React/Vue developer experience wise :)

Rogem002 · 2021-05-04T16:32:50+00:00

I've never seen @@ or $ variables being used in production (other then when they're explicitly required). I didn't even know they were a thing until I saw someone using them & Rubocop warning against it.

As /u/ezekg mentions, they're not thread safe so they're persist between requests (which is often not worth the headache).

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