Rails

Transitioning Tuist Cloud from Ruby to Elixir

Ruby proved not to be the most suitable runtime for apps that are IO-heavy. We evaluated Swift, but ultimately decided on Elixir for various reasons.

Elixir scales better

In this blog post, I talk about the scaling challenges we faced with Rails, and why we decided to transition to Elixir.

A future note to self about Omniauth

Every time I try to set up Omniauth on a Rails codebase I run into the same issue: Not found. Authentication passthru And every time I have to spend a fair amount of time understanding what's causing the error. Luckiy it won't have anymore…

ViteJS and Rails

I recently had to set up a React frontend for a Rails app, and I decided to use ViteJS instead of Webpack . What's interesting about ViteJS is that in development, it uses ES modules instead of smashing all your Javascript into a single fil…

The exciting adventure of building a web app

I’ve been playing lately with building a web app that complements Tuist with some features that require storing state in a server. Since I have a mobile development background, being familiar with Swift, iOS, and very recently React Native,…

What I like from Ruby and Rails

The more I use Ruby and Rails, the more I like it. I’ve played with Typescript lately, and it continues to feel heavy: parenthesis and brackets everywhere, layers on indirection through tools to accommodate the Javascript to the browser or…