In my experience and the apps I worked on, there were a few times I needed to find records based on empty associations. Let’s imagine a silly example where you were writing a software to manage your franchise of electronic stores. You wanted to find store locations that run out…

I picked up Elixir last year at work. While some debugging tools are good to casual debug things in Elixir, IO.puts/2 and IO.inspect/2 are sometimes much faster to show what I wanted to see in the console log output. The drawback of IO.puts/2 is that it can only take a…

The dev team at Vendorful take code quality seriously. We invest in writing tests for every bug fix and new feature being implemented and in well reviewed merge requests. As any good developer should know from their past experience that with good test coverage they can actually move faster as…

I ran into this when I was cleaning up my local git. I deleted both a local and its remote branch on origin! 🤦‍♂ And the branch I deleted is still in a Merge (Pull) Request! …

I picked up ReactJS recently after a few years away from coding in Javascript at all. Since ReactJS is a powerful and useful framework with a lot of bells and whisles, in the midst of so many new things to learn, I lost sight of it being just a *javascript*…

Recently, I’ve picked up Javascript again at my day job writing software using ReactJS and Elixir. It had been a while I hadn’t code javascript professionally since AngularJS 1. Since 2014, there are so many new changes to the JS libraries and communities! I need to catch up. Today I…

I have recently talked to a friend of mine who had just gotten rejected for a job interview earlier that day. He mentioned that the company disqualified him because he was not as “senior” as he said in his resume. He was only working for 3 years as a software…

Please note that this post is not a tutorial and it requires knowledge of Rails 5 ActionCable and ReactJS / Javascript custom library building. One of the awesome features that comes with Rails 5 is ActionCable. With ActionCable, you can build all the real-time features you can think of via…

A service is an independent module which contains logic that doesn’t belong to one model or controller. As the name indicates, it provides a service to a model, controller or even another service. It does one thing and does it well. …