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Jump into the most helpful comments on GitHub issues with this Chrome extension

August 11, 2019 / / 0 Comments

One great thing about Github is that you have the issues section, in which you can see recommendations or requests for help related to a particular project. There you can find many comments, where developers may be complaining about a bug, offering a solution, or simply pointing out something they want to see included in the project. If you want to quickly navigate through these comments and jump right into the ones that have had considerable reactions, then you can try to install this Chrome extension.

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Avoid slow export timeout of RailsAdmin using ActiveAdmin

May 5, 2019 / / 0 Comments
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I have previously written about a really great Ruby gem called RailsAdmin which allows you to quickly prepare admin dashboards from your models. However, it comes with a disadvantage when you are dealing with large files. Let’s say that you want to export a large file from your RailsAdmin, like having 100 000 rows. This export will take a while and if you are using Heroku, chances are that you will actually have a timeout. Luckily, here comes ActiveAdmin.

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I became a Ruby on Rails and React contributor and you can too

December 10, 2017 / / 0 Comments

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I am really grateful that I have managed to contribute to a few open source projects, including the ones that I currently use on a regular basis: Ruby on Rails and React. My contributions are very minor fixes, and suggestions, and may not be that much worthy of the praise, but I want to use this article to inspire you to go and make your own contributions as well.

One of my core values is contribution and helping others. That’s one of the reasons why I love to write articles, and also contribute back to the very projects that I have benefitted from over the years.  

Although major frameworks that are largely used have gone through tons of reviews and careful analysis over the years, there is always room for improvement or addition. This means that you are not only able to fix bugs, or improve something that is already implemented, but you can also implement new features as well. Continue reading

Debug your Ruby code using ByeBug gem

November 5, 2017 / / 0 Comments

 

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It is no doubt that one of the activities that takes most of the time of software developers is debugging. We as programmers can make many mistakes, which may lead to many bugs that need to be fixed. One of the best ways to fix these bugs, understand the flow of an application, or implement new features is through debugging. ByeBug is a great Ruby gem that helps us fix bugs and debug projects by going through each line. It is similar to pry, with additional functionalities. 

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