Sometimes, you'd have to monkey-patch a library to extend it with specific functionality, and there are a few ways to go about doing it in ruby.

Monkey Patching in Ruby

No ActiveRecord Callbacks

Value Objects are finally getting first-class representation in Ruby.

Value Objects in Ruby

Here are some things to take note when using loops in RSpec to DRY

Using loops in RSpec

There was data required to be copied over from a different source. Empty fields were to be handled due to the legacy nature of the data, so we needed to skip the presence check of some fields while saving them in this business flow.

Ruby on Rails Gotcha - Object#with_options

Recently, one of our Rails applications wanted an upgrade to Webpack 5, for faster compilation times and to deliver smaller asset bundles.

How I upgraded a Webpack 4 plugin to Webpack 5

In one of our projects, we have a CurrencyField class component that formats user input, by adding commas to separate the thousands for readability.

Fixing a weird React input bug with Gboard emoji suggestions

What is, in my opinion, an objectively better test suite?

Writing Objectively Better Specs

It's high time for a blog update so I spent the weekend fiddling around with several new technologies..

New Design with Next.js - from development to deployment

I needed to write an API for direct_messages#index, which returns the latest direct_message per sender, and it has to be paginated.

DISTINCT ON subquery with correct ordering

I am one month late to my reading schedule but at least I've completed The Phoenix Project yesterday.

Phoenix

We wanted to create a shared authentication platform with Devise for both API and non-API (vanilla website) usage.

Lim Yao Jie